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Arizona State University to Host a Three Webinar Series on "Restoring the Carbon Budget"
December 15, 2016
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST
 The capacity of the Earth's atmosphere to safely hold excess carbon without too much warming is limited. The situation is growing more urgent. Even after the December 2015 Climate Conference in Paris, the pace to transform economies away from dumping fossil carbon into the atmosphere will likely be too slow to achieve the goal of holding the temperature increase to two degrees Celsius.
Unless that pace is dramatically accelerated, the planet will almost certainly exceed its "carbon budget" within two decades, if it hasn't already. This concern has led the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to conclude that Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs), which remove CO2 from the air, will be needed to meet climate goals.
However, NETs are still in the research, development or demonstration stages of commercialization and may not be ready in time, or feasible at the necessary scale. That poses a conundrum. Technologies cannot develop without policy drivers; policy cannot lead the way without the assurance of demonstrably affordable and scalable technologies.
Session 1 Panelists include: Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned professor of economics, leader in
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sustainable development senior UN advisor, bestselling author, syndicated columnist and former Director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change in the School of
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Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester. Kevin recently finished a two-year position as director of the Tyndall Centre. David Biello, Science Curator at Ted Talks and former Scientific American Energy and Environment Editor, will moderate the session. More about the series and the first webinar, including an additional panelist, will be announced next week.
December 15, 2016
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST
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Edward Saltzberg, Ph.D.
