Climate Change Institute Lecture Series featuring Dr. Adrián Cerezo
“Modeling a Pathway to Climate Solutions Based on Sustainable Development and Human Wellbeing”
Monday, March 25, 2024 at 12 PM
300 Bryand Global Science Center
University of Maine or Via Zoom
About the speaker:
Adrián is a Visiting Researcher and CHILD project Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Maine Portland Gateway. His transdisciplinary work explores the fundamental role of Early Childhood Development (ECD) in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adrián has a PhD and MESc from Yale University with a focus on social ecology, child development, complex systems, and global policy, as well as more than 25 years of field experience in environmental and community-based education.
He currently serves as Senior Advisor on Early Childhood Development and Climate Change to the Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC), UNICEF Pacific, and the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN). In November of 2022, he joined the delegation of the Republic of the Marshall Islands at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27). Adrián is also the founder and president of the Infinite Kindness Project in Maine. His lifelong aspiration is to contribute to a kinder, more sustainable future.