Environment

Environmental Justice Advisory Committee

Justin worked as co-facilitator with the Center for Collaborative policy to facilitate stakeholder breakout groups at Environmental Justice Advisory Committee community meetings throughout California.  He provided support to the California Air Resources Board and the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee for multiple meetings as they worked towards the implementation of CA Assembly Bill 32.  Justin prepared draft facilitation agendas and plans, and was responsible for note-taking and meeting summary preparation at all meetings.  He liaised with the project manager and agency contact throughout the process.

https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ejac/ejac.htm

Desert and Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Collaborative

Mike facilitated discussions of the collaborative in its early stages.  The collaboratives are management-science partnerships that address climate change and other stressors at a landscape scale. LCCs provide opportunities to develop, access, and share applied science and leverage funding, information and technical expertise for applied science projects. The LCCs are part of a nationwide U.S. Department of Interior initiative and will involve federal, state, tribal, academic, non-governmental, and private sector stakeholders.  The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are serving as co-leads for the Desert and Southern Rockies LCC.

The World Bank – Project-based Environmental Dispute Resolution Mechanisms

Mike and Keystone Center senior colleagues, under contract with the World Bank, evaluated dispute resolution mechanisms used by the Bank and other international development institutions and organizations and recommended a specific and transparent project-based environmental dispute resolution mechanism (PBEDRM) that can help Bank staff anticipate and help resolve grievances by parties, including indigenous people, who are adversely affected by projects supported by Bank financing.