New Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM Friday August 1, 2025; Global Environmental Economic Trends

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New Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM Friday August 1, 2025; Global Environmental Economic Trends , Peter B. Meyer, Ph.D.

 

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Planet Philadelphia
4-5:00 PM Friday 8/1/2025
92.9 FM WGGT-LP & https://gtownradio.com/

Economic issues often affect policy decisions and behavior related to climate change. Our guest talks about global environmental economic trends, as well as their relationship some of the currents.

• Peter B. Meyer, Ph.D.  is Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Economics and Director Emeritus of the Center for Environmental Policy and Management at the University of Louisville. Among his other accomplishments, he spent 15 years as an Expert Witness for EPA’s Environmental Finance Advisory Board and then went on to work with the agency’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities subcommittee of its Board of Scientific Counselors. He also is advising both the UK and US governments on such matters and leads an international team writing about the financing of urban responses to climate change around the world. He still has time to be a member of the Borough Council of New Hope PA. Peter will discuss his take on global environmental economic trends, a topic on which he’s written a recent book along with others.

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