Harvard-Alumni-Webinar-6-Dec-2021

Harvard Alum Webinar on Climate Change 6 Dec 2021

• Big data can help identify environmental trends
• Particularly intersections of climate data and public health
• Examples of COVID and fires (PM2.5 particles) ## David Keith of Harvard FAS##
• 5 elements that
  • Economy
  • Emissions
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• Mitigations
  • Renewable Energy
  • Carbon Removal
  • Geoengineering
  • Adaptation
• Note emissions reduction doesn’t actually reduce temperatures
  • Onlycarbon removal or solar geo-engineering
  • Do carbon removal as soon as emissions are downt o zero
  • Only do geo-engineering when things are at their worst
• Note: decarbonization and electrification is only going to work at a reasonable time frame if we solve the national electrical distribution level
• Jody Freeman of HLS
  • Law, if not sufficiently adaptive, can slow down business and policy transformation
  • Pendulum of law shifts from administration to administration based on executive action
  • Climate policy largely set at one of 2 levels
    • Executive actions
    • Judicial
    • Congress has largely been inert
  • Desire to support states that want to lean in in mitigation and adaptation
    • Provide legal advices to states that want to develop clean fuel policies that don’t run afoul of constitutional laws on inter-state commerce
  • Enlist the private sector