Wednesday, 15 January 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
254B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Symposium on Pricing Carbon and Other Climate Policy Opportunities -- The Economic, Political and Social Context
Chair:
John L. Keller, Weather Analytics Inc., Winchester, MA
Moderator:
John L. Keller, Weather Analytics Inc., Winchester, MA
Panelists:
Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, AZ; Rick Parnell, Foundation for Climate Restoration, RSP Investments, Washington, DC; Michelle Wyman, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, DC; Julio Friedmann, Columbia University, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Global Energy Policy, New York, NY and Daniel Nocera, Harvard University, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Cambridge, MA
No matter how quickly we reduce GHG emissions, mitigation can at best deliver a badly disrupted climate. Climate restoration combines mitigation with draw down and envisions lowering atmospheric CO2 from 415 ppm, where it is today, to below 300 ppm. Both the technology and financing methods already exist to reclaim the safe and healthy climate we enjoyed before the industrial revolution. Specific examples of promising technologies with potential commercial viability to deploy at the scale necessary will be discussed.
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