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IPCC, Kyoto and the Next Steps
to Meet the Challenge of Climate Change
 
 Prof. Chris Field
 
 7:30pm, January 23, 2008
Cubberley Auditorium (map, parking)
 
Free and Open to the Public
 



The strong historical link between carbon emissions and economic activity highlights the dual economic and ecological nature of the looming challenge. With the global economy likely to grow more than 10-fold in the 21st century, protecting the climate will require the widespread deployment of low-emitting technologies. Our challenge is cutting emissions while still powering the global economic engine through the 21st century. Many relevant technologies are available today, but moving them from the laboratory scale to global energy system is the grand challenge of our era.
 
Prof. Chris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and Director of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. He was the coordinating lead author on the 2007 IPCC chapter on impacts of climate change on North America. A member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Field has appeared recently on BBC's The World Today, CBC's Quirks and Quarks, and NPR's Science Friday.