麻豆影院

• Environmental Studies
• Renewable Energy
• Energy Education

Paul Komor听was the founder of CU鈥檚 energy certificate programs and was CU鈥檚 Energy Education Director from 2009 to 2014. He has taught energy courses at CU since 1997, and is currently a Lecturer in CU鈥檚 Environmental Studies (ENVS) department.听

Prior to joining the University of Colorado faculty, Paul was a Project Director at the U.S. Congress鈥櫶�听(OTA), where he worked with both House and Senate Congressional Committees in preparing and evaluating energy legislation. His 1992 report, "", played a major role in the debates that culminated in the Energy Policy Act of 1992.

Prior to joining OTA, he taught at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has published numerous refereed articles, reports, and other papers; and in 2004 published a book,听, that compares U.S. and EU experiences with renewable energy policies. That book is required or recommended reading for courses at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), University of Denver (DU), University of Utah, Robert Gordon University (UK), and elsewhere.

In 2001, Paul was awarded the Diebold Foundation Fellowship for European policy studies and spent 2001 as a Visiting Academic in the听听at Imperial College, London. In 2005, Paul was selected as the听听by Stanford University, where he spent six months at Stanford researching and teaching on renewable energy policy and technology.

In 2007, Paul shared in the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 鈥渇or their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."听The IPCC consists of a large number of scientists and researchers 鈥� including Paul, who co- authored a chapter on 鈥淢itigation Options for Human Settlements鈥� in the IPCC鈥檚 Second Assessment Report. For his work with the IPCC, Paul was named a contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize.