Climate Solutions

Presentations from University of California Faculty Climate Action Champions, who are working to build community engagement and awareness of climate change and to discover and implement solutions. Series: "Climate Solutions " [Science] [Show ID: 31051]

Presentations from University of California Faculty Climate Action Champions, who are working to build community engagement and awareness of climate change and to discover and implement solutions. Series: "Climate Solutions " [Science] [Show ID: 31050]

A diverse panel of experts – from academics to activists to ranchers – discuss the moral, animal welfare, human health and environmental issues surrounding meat production and consumption. This is the second of a four-part series covering food sustainability sponsored by the Berry Good Food Foundation. Series: "Climate Solutions " [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Agriculture] [Sho...

Highlights of the lively and informative symposium on natural climate solutions hosted by the Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy at UC Davis. Series: "Climate Solutions " [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30795]

Fifteen physical scientists, political scientists, and students from UC San Diego were part of the University of California delegation to the 21st Conference of the Parties, more commonly known as COP 21, the latest in a series of negotiations held annually under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The outcome was a landmark agreement to fight climate change signed by 195 co...

Philip Warburg explores a range of solar technologies. A seasoned environmental lawyer, Warburg makes a case for embracing this technology as he talks about what is happening around the country and what more could be done. Series: "Climate Solutions " [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30827]

Climate scientist Richard Somerville completes the “Climate Change at the Crossroads” series presented by the UC San Diego Library with a talk recounting his experiences at the Paris COP 21 conference and his ongoing efforts to widen public understanding of the catastrophic impacts of climate change. Series: "Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30489]

Scott Samuelsen, UC Irvine, is an expert in energy generation, from fossil fuel combustion to advanced fuel cell technology, and their impacts on the environment. He looks at the technology challenges of reducing carbon. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30291]

Helena Molin Valdés, a long-time proponent of sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaption, and disaster reduction, is the Head of the Secretariat, Climate and Clean Air Coalition at the United Nations Environment Programme. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30282]

Climate change policy expert David Victor, a professor of International Relations at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy & Strategy and two of his graduate students provide insights into the process and the outcome of the 2015 COP 21 climate talks in Paris. Victor has been a participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) proceedings since the IPCC’s inception Victor is pres...

Soil really does matter! Join our distinguished panelists and learn about climate change's hottest topic - Soil! Find out how soil’s ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere may hold the key to solving the massive environmental problems caused by climate change. Panelists include: Ryland Engelhart and Calla Rose Ostrander of Kiss the Ground; Scott Murray, organic farmer and resource conservati...

Byron Washom, UC San Diego, and Susanna Hecht UCLA explore the challenges to scaling solutions. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30295]

Rinaldo S. Brutoco is a successful entrepreneur, executive, author and futurist and the Founding President of the World Business Academy. He looks at the role and responsibility of business in relation to the critical moral, environmental and social concerns of the day especially moving away from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capp...

Fonna Forman, UC San Diego, and Magali Delmas, UCLA, discuss how to frame climate change so that people will take action. That includes understanding that climate change affects the health and prosperity of people, not just polar bears. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30293]

Daniel Kammen of UC Berkeley and Doug Rotman of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory explore how actions to reduce carbon can be scaled to national and global levels. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30290]

Max Auffhammer of UC Berkeley looks at the economics of climate change, listing the economic considerations that are important to take into account when designing and evaluating climate policy, including cost effectiveness and efficiency. Then he discusses specific policies at the state, national and international level in light of these economic considerations. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neut...

Juliann Allison, UC Riverside Public Policy, explores the environmental policy and politics associated with climate action. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30286]

William Collins, UC Berkeley Earth and Planetary Sciences, is an internationally recognized expert in climate modeling and climate change science. He was a Lead Author on the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Here he explores pathways to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Series: "UC Carbon and Climat...

Academic entrepreneurs share their experiences of taking ideas from lab to market in this wide-ranging discussion on spawning innovation featuring Jeff Lievense of Genomatica, Bernhard Palsson of UC San Diego, Paul Wright of UC Berkeley and Gavin McCormick of WattTime. Greg Horowitt, Co-Founder of T2 Venture Creation, moderates. Series: "Career Channel" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Business] [Show...

Pradeep K. Khosla, Chancellor of UC San Diego leads a lively discussion with fellow Chancellors from UC Davis, UC Merced and UC Riverside on the variety of actions from infrastructure to education that the campuses of the University of California system are taking to reach carbon neutrality by 2025. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science]...

Ellen Williams, Director, ARPA-E, U.S. Department of Energy provides an interesting look at the kinds of advanced projects supported by the US Department of Energy. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30304]

The University of California, a national leader in sustainability, has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2025, becoming the first major university to accomplish this achievement. Rachael Nava, Chief Operating Officer, UC Office of the President discusses that initiative. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30280]

David Hochschild, Commissioner, California Energy Commission, discusses clean and renewable energy. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30289]

UC Regent Bonnie Reiss presents five student leaders from the University of California as they share what they are doing, and their visions for slowing climate change. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 30303]

Nobel Laureate Mario Molina, UC San Diego, describes international actions to combat climate change. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30299]