Jennifer A. Haverkamp
Graham Family Director, Graham Sustainability Institute
Professor from Practice, Michigan Law School
Professor of Practice, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Abstract:
In this guest lecture, Professor Haverkamp will discuss how the aviation industry is addressing sustainability concerns, and, in particular, its response to the flying public’s increasingly critical focus on aviation’s contribution to global climate change. She will cover the U.S. government agencies and international institutions responsible for setting environmental policies and adjudicating disputes in the civil aviation sector. She will also describe the “basket of measures” through which the international aviation industry is working to reduce its carbon footprint. In particular, she will introduce the class to the International Civil Aviation Organization’s 2016 agreement to limit GHG emissions through a carbon offsetting scheme (an agreement she helped negotiate while at the State Department), and examine the agreement’s effectiveness and level of industry support. She will conclude with an assessment of how the U.S. government, with its “all of government” approach to climate change, is tackling the problem in the aviation sector.

About the speaker...
Jennifer Haverkamp is the Graham Family Director of U-M’s Graham Sustainability Institute, a professor of practice at Michigan Law School, and a professor from practice at the Ford School of Public Policy. She also co-chaired President Schlissel’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality. Professor Haverkamp previously served as the U.S. State Department’s Ambassador and Special Representative for Environment and Water Resources, where in 2016 she led the successful negotiations of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s landmark CORSIA agreement to control global greenhouse gas emissions and the Kigali HFC-phasedown amendment to the Montreal Protocol. Ms. Haverkamp also directed Environmental Defense Fund's International Climate Program, served as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources in the Executive Office of the President, and held posts at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice. She has taught at Cornell Law School, George Washington University’s law school and Johns Hopkins graduate school, and has served on USTR's Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee and a number of nonprofit boards. Ms. Haverkamp holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.A. in politics and philosophy from Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar) and a B.A. in biology from The College of Wooster.