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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Monday, March 20, 2017, 7 – 8:30 p.m </span></strong>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#202020">Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 West 116th Street (at Amsterdam Avenue), Room 106</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#202020"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">As required by a 2014 state statute, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has just issued official sea level rise projections. They reflect a range of possible scenarios;
 at the high end, sea level in the New York City area could rise 75 inches (6.2 feet) by the year 2100.This program will explore how these projections, now that they are embodied in a formal regulation, will affect a broad range of decisions in building and
 infrastructure siting, design, construction and materials; insurance and financing; environmental impact review; and securities disclosure.<br>
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<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">MODERATOR:</span></i></strong> 
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Michael B. Gerrard</span></strong>, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School<br>
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<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">SPEAKERS</span></i></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Kate Orff</span></strong>, Associate Professor & Director, Urban Design Program, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Mark Lowery</span></strong>, Office of Climate Change, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation [tentative]<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Pippa Brashear,</span></strong> Director of Planning and Resilience, SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC; Columbia UD<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Thaddeus Pawlowski</span></strong>, Senior Urban Designer, New York City Department of City Planning; Columbia UD</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#202020"><br>
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</span><em><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Admission is free but registration is required</span></b></em><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">.
</span></strong><em><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">RSVP </span></b></em><a href="http://columbia.us13.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9906c7202590aac6a8bdbb7b9&id=0042a02768&e=80464114aa" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">here</span></i></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> <br>
For further information about the event, click </span><a href="http://columbia.us13.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9906c7202590aac6a8bdbb7b9&id=fd14cf3cca&e=80464114aa" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">here</span></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
For downloadable graphic presentation of the projections, click </span><a href="http://columbia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9906c7202590aac6a8bdbb7b9&id=ae981c4d68&e=80464114aa" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">here</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#202020"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">For further background, see Michael B.Gerrard and Edward McTiernan </span><a href="http://columbia.us13.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9906c7202590aac6a8bdbb7b9&id=1e3dd17142&e=80464114aa" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">“New
 York's New Sea Level Rise Projections Will Affect Land Use, Infrastructure”</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">,
<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">New York Law Journal</span></em>, March 8, 2017</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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