Press Release
October 22, 2024
Media Contact: Nora Zacharski, zacharskin@c2es.org
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) is pleased to welcome David G.Victor to the Board of Directors. Victor, a globally renowned scholar on climate and energy issues, is a professor of innovation and public policy at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego. He also co-directs the Deep Decarbonization Initiative at UCSD, which aims to find solutions to overcome the engineering, economic and political challenges associated with achieving a net zero economy. Victor is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As a new Board member, Victor will play an integral role in shaping C2ES’s impact and continued growth, across all four pillars of the organization’s work: developing and advocating for strong U.S. climate policies, supporting the environmental effectiveness of the Paris Agreement, strengthening climate resilience, and enabling and accelerating business leadership on climate.
“David is one of the most innovative and influential thinkers on climate and energy issues in the United States. I am thrilled to have him join the C2ES Board and honored that he is committing his time to helping us achieve our mission,” said C2ES President Nat Keohane. “His scholarship and engagement over the course of his career – from his role as lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to his incisive analysis of climate diplomacy, to his current role at UCSD helping to develop and implement real-world deep decarbonization solutions – make him a terrific fit for C2ES’s combination of policy and analytical expertise, business engagement, and reputation as a trusted convener.”
C2ES, founded in 1998 as the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, works to secure and safe and stable climate by accelerating the global transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and a thriving, just, and resilient economy. Underpinning every aspect of C2ES’s work is its belief in equitable climate solutions — ensuring that the benefits of the transition to a net-zero economy are widely shared and that vulnerable communities are protected from climate impacts.
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