The FRG co-sponsored the Greening XIV, the annual meeting of Southern California's environmental researchers. It was held on Saturday, January 25, 2005 in MPAA Building 408.

The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) has a number of funding opportunities for academic funding and job opportunities. For more information, please visit the IGCC website.

The FRG co-sponsored a presentation on coastal water quality to be made by Professor Stanley Grant on May 6, 2004 in 343 MPAA. This event will be co-sponsored with the Newkirk Center for Science and Society. More information is available on the Newkirk Center Website.

The Greening XIV, the annual meeting of Southern California's environmental researchers, will be held at the University of California, Irvine on January 22, 2005. More details forthcoming.

The journal International Environmental Agreements has put out a call for papers. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on the theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions of achieving cooperative solutions to international environmental problems. The journal, which is published four times each year, emphasizes both formal legal agreements (such as multilateral treaties) and less formal cooperative mechanisms (such as ministerial declarations and producer-consumer agreements). The journal's scope encompasses the full range of environmental and natural resource issues, including (but not limited to) biosafety, biodiversity loss, climate change, desertification, forest conservation, ozone depletion, transboundary pollutant flows, and the management of marine and fresh-water resources. For more information, please visit the website for International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.

FRG Member Joe DiMento presented on science and environmental  law at the 2004 American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle. NEPA represented an "environmental constitution," said Joseph Dimento, a professor of planning, law and management at the University of California, Irvine. It was the first time the environment was recognized as part of government actions, he told United Press International.

A Graduate Group Meeting was held on Friday, February 6th, in SEII 2303. Graduate students discussed their research projects.

On Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 4:00 Professor Joseph DiMento gave an informal talk on Climate Change and U.S. Policy. This talk was located in MPAA 343

Nils Petter Gleditsch, presented "A Resource Curse? Scarcity and Abundance as Causes of Conflict." Thursday, January 22, 2004, 10:00 am - 11:00am, 408 MPAA Building. Gleditsch is a Research Professor at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and editor of the Journal of Peace Research.

On Saturday, January 24, 2004 the Greening XIII Conference will be held at the Hedco Neurosciences Conference Room and Auditorium at the University of Southern California in downtown Los Angeles. The event is sponsored by the Jesse Unruh Institute of Politics and the Environmental Studies Program at USC.

In 2004, the FRG will host a Conference on Trade and the Environment in Europe and the Americas. The date and location will be announced.

Read "Climate Change: Italian Style" by Joseph F. C. DiMento, a Professor of Law & Society and Planning, UCI, and an observer at the Ninth Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, Milan, Italy, December 1-12, 2003.

On October 28-30, 2004 a Conference on Challenges of a Transboundary World will be held in the Beckman Center of the National Academy of Sciences, at the University of California, Irvine. The event is sponsored by the Urban Water Research Center, the Focused Research Group in International Environmental Cooperation, the Program in Industrial Ecology, the Center for the Study of Democracy, and the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies.

The Newkirk Center, with co-sponsors Larry Agran, the Mayor of Irvine, the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, the School of Social Ecology, and the Los Angeles County Public Defender presented “Science and the Law of Evidence” on Saturday, November 15, at the Irvine Civic Center.

The UCI Newkirk Center for Science and Society presented Climate Change (The Greenhouse Effect): What it Means for You, Your Children, and Your Grandchildren. This event was held on October 30, 2003.

FRG member Joseph DiMento was interviewed on international
environmental law  on KUCI's "A Few Things Considered."

FRG member Joseph DiMento's book The Global Environment and International Law is now available.

The FRG and the UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society sponsored a colloquium on March 10, 2003 by William H. Calvin on  "A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change."

FRG Member Joseph DiMento has been named Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society. He was recently profiled in an article on UCI New University, to read the article click here.

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