Jared Polis to host Climate Change Roundtable

BOULDER — U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., will host a Climate Change Roundtable on Monday in Boulder that will feature Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and representatives from federal labs and universities in Colorado.

The roundtable will be from 8 to 9 a.m., Monday, Aug. 31, at the Wolf Law Room 300 on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.

Leaders from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental Studies, the University of Colorado and Colorado State University will participate.

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The roundtable will look at three topics and how they intersect with both Colorado’s efforts to fight climate change and the President’s Climate Change Action Plan: the Colorado Climate Change Vulnerability Study.

The study was prepared earlier this year by Western Water Assessment, regional climate resources with representatives from the US Forest Service and the US Geological Survey, and the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory, a research consortium among the Colorado School of Mines, CU-Boulder, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and CSU.

At 9 a.m. Moniz will deliver a speech about the ways the final Iran nuclear agreement is an improvement from the initial framework, and how it blocks the pathways for Iran to develop nuclear weapons. He will give the speech for CU’s  Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment at Wolf Law Room 101.

Finally, he will attend and speak at the 16th annual Wirth Chair Sustainability Awards Luncheon at the Curtis Hotel in Denver.