SSAFE Climate Education Speaker Series Guest Speaker: Gus Speth, Author of “They Knew: The US Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis” Recorded on April 22, 2022 as part of the Climate Speaker Series at Kendal at Hanover James Gustave Speth is Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School and a senior fellow at Demos, the Democracy Collaborative, and the Tellus Institute. He served as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies from 1999 to 2009. From 1993 to 1999, Dean Speth was Administrator of the United Nations Development Program and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council.
