New Frontiers: Perspectives to Emerging Climate Innovations
We are now offering a virtual option. If you would like to attend virtually, please register here.
Much of the climate effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thereby climate impact, has focused on various mitigation strategies. Despite this work, emissions have continued to rise worldwide, reaching dangerous tipping points and threatening to permanently destabilize our climate system.
With the slow progress in emission reduction, the conversation has turned to considering other types of interventions that could remove carbon from the atmosphere or directly reduce global temperatures over the next few decades. The question many climate leaders now are asking is whether we can meet our climate goals and avoid disastrous global warming by relying on mitigation strategies alone? Have we reached a point where we want to start considering additional pathways that so far have been out of the mainstream?
CSU Climate Hub event “New Frontiers – Perspectives to Emerging Climate Innovations” not only asks this difficult question but also presents some of the most intriguing frontier technologies and tools that soon might be available to us. With the guidance of leading experts, we will dive into carbon removal innovations that could speed up our progress towards climate goals. In addition, we will explore emerging approaches such as solar geoengineering and what needs to be understood for what role they might play. Collectively we ask, is it time to expand the range of what responses might be needed to combat climate change?
We will provide “Explainers” - quick expert talks to present the new innovations: how do they work, and what is their societal and environmental impact? What are the open questions? The event will close with a broader analysis of future pathways.
Speakers:
Kenneth Shockley, Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Colorado State University (Moderator)
Sasha Post, Director, Outlier Projects
Jim Hurrell, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
Lisa Dilling, Associate Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
Rich Conant, Interim Dean, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
Megan L. Melamed, Program Lead, Methane Removal, Spark Climate Solutions
Brent Minchew, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Arête Glacier Initiative, and Professor of Geophysics, California Institute of Technology
This is an opportunity to have your questions about the next frontier of climate solutions answered! Feel free to send us questions in advance to [email protected].
Please join us after the event for a CSU Climate and Sustainability Happy Hour from 5:00-6:00pm and A View from the Sustainability Trenches: False Solutions and Meaningful Answers with Auden Schendler from 6:00-7:00pm. Please register for each event individually.
Free and open to the public. All are welcome.