Daniel A. Lashof

Daniel A. Lashof is the science director and deputy director of NRDC’s climate center. Dan is involved in developing federal legislation to place enforceable limits on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants and to reduce America’s dangerous dependence on oil. He has followed international climate negotiations since their inception and is a lead author of the “Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” on the role of land-use change and forestry in exacerbating or mitigating global warming. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Harvard University and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.