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Washington, D.C. -- Jonathan B. Wiener, Professor at Duke University, has joined the Board of Directors of Climate Policy Center (CPC), and Linda Liebes, former Executive Director of the Coyote Point Museum in California, has become an CPC Advisor.

CPC is a non-profit organization whose mission is to develop economically efficient and politically viable U.S. policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Professor Wiener is Professor of Law, Environmental Policy, and Public Policy Studies at Duke University, and the Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions. He was elected to the governing Council of the Society for Risk Analysis in 2001, and was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 1999. He is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future. He served in both the first Bush and Clinton administrations as senior staff economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisors, as policy counsel at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, and as special assistant to the head of the Justice Department's Environment Division.

The other CPC Board members are Rafe Pomerance - Chairman, CPC consultant; Roger Dower - Vice Chairman, President, Forest Stewardship Council; Claudia Schechter - Secretary/Treasurer, consultant and former Chief Financial Officer, National Park Foundation; Jason Burnett, energy and environmental markets consultant; Randall Lutter, Chief Economist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Charles O. Moore,energy and environmental consultant; and Susan F. Tierney, Senior Vice President, Lexecon, Inc., and Chair, Energy Foundation Board of Directors.

Ms. Liebes is the former Executive Director and Director of Development of the Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education in San Mateo, California. Before her 20 years of work at the museum, she was an environmental educator at the Bay Leaf Environmental Program, and then the editor and publisher of Bay Leaf Publishing Company. She is active politically on the local and state level on environmental issues in Northern California.

The other CPC Advisors are J.W. Anderson, Journalist-in-Residence, Resources for the Future; Scott Barrett, Professor of Environmental Economics and International Political Economy, School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University; Peter Barnes, entrepreneur, author, and co-founder, Working Assets; Ambassador Richard Benedick,Senior Advisor, Joint Global Change Research Institute, University of Maryland/Battelle International; Michel Gelobter, Executive Director, Redefining Progress; Lawrence Goulder, Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Stanford University; Thomas C. Heller, Professor International Legal Studies, Stanford Law School; Dale W. Jorgenson, Professor of Economics, and Director, Program on Technology and Economic Policy, Harvard University; Raymond Kopp, Vice President for Programs, Resources for the Future; Frank E. Loy, former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Warwick McKibbin, Professor of International Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; Richard Morgenstern, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; William O'Keefe, President, Solutions Consulting, Inc.; Martha Phillips, public affairs consultant; John Edward Porter, Partner, Hogan and Hartson; and Thomas C. Schelling, Distinguished Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland.