KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER

Academic Dean, The Fletcher School at Tufts University

Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy

Director of Climate Policy Lab and Co-Director, CIERP

Former Senior Policy Advisor, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Kelly is the one who saw an opportunity for the US to enter into a bilateral agreement with China about climate change. It was a first. Their agreement helped bolster the Paris Accord.

She explains how policy works and how cap and trade and carbon tax can solve the carbon problem. She helps us see how powerful it will be if we set goals and create policy to meet those goals. Kelly understands the importance of the United States keeping up with the international energy market and urges policymakers to help.

“As an American what I think really animates me is this sense of opportunity that we have to be part of the clean energy revolution and to be part of the generation that actually turns the corner on climate change and helps actually achieves this massive global goal.”

“So we as Americans have this chance to be able to be leaders in that transition, and we have the ability to bring new technology, American ingenuity, our classic sense of determination to make the world a better place. We can be part of this solution.”