Joel Smith (Stratus Consulting), Associate

Joel has 24 years of experience with environmental, policy, and regulatory issues, particularly as they relate to global climate change. He is an expert on global climate change impacts and adaptation. As the deputy director of the Climate Change Division (CCD), Joel has worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regions, states, and private industry to examine cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions and adaptation to climate change. He was coeditor of EPA’s Report to Congress, The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States, published in 1989, and of As Climate Changes: International Impacts and Implications, published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, on international impacts of climate change.

He has published seven edited books and more than a dozen journal articles on climate change, was a lead author for the Synthesis chapter on climate change impacts for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and a coordinating lead author for the same chapter in the Third Assessment Report. (In 2007, the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.) He has made numerous presentations on climate change to international and domestic audiences, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the American Society for Civil Engineers.

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