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Juliette N. Rooney-Varga

Juliette N. Rooney-Varga is an expert on climate change and sustainability. She is founding director of the Climate Change Initiative, co-directs the Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy, and is a professor of Environmental Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.


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Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?

By John Sterman, William Moomaw, Juliette N. Rooney-Varga, Lori Siegel | Analysis, Climate Change