Newswise — Roger A. Sedjo, a Nobel Laureate who is one of the country’s leading economists specializing in forestry issues, received an honorary degree May 14 from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse, N.Y.
Sedjo, currently director of Resources for the Future's forest economics and policy program, was honored with the Nobel Prize in 2007, as one of the contributing authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report on Climate Change.
Sedjo earned economics degrees at the University of Illinois (B.A. ’61, M.A. ’63) and University of Washington (Ph.D., ’69). He served with the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1970 to ’73.
Specifically, his research has focused on forests and global environmental problems, climate change and biodiversity, public land issues, the long-term sustainability of forests, industrial forestry and demand, timber supply, global forest trade, forest biotechnology and land use change. He is the author of 14 books related to forestry and natural resources.
He has been a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Committee of Scientists and co-chaired the committee of authors who wrote the chapter on biological sinks for the International Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report on climate change mitigation through forestry and other land-use measures.
Sedjo has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and other international organizations in more than a dozen countries.
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