[SPN-Discussion] Webinar: Solving Climate By 2030, Hunter Lovins 9/18 Noon EST

[Eban Goodstein]

The Bard Center for Environmental Policy / The National Climate Seminar


How to Solve Climate by 2030: We CAN Change the Future

L. Hunter Lovins

Webinar, Wednesday September 18 12 Noon EST.  

Webinar Link Here. Dial in information Here. 



The 2030 date to achieve the Paris climate target has inspired new engagement in climate solutions. Nevertheless, there is widespread pessimism about slowing climate change in the near term. Countering this view, increasingly low-cost solar plus low-cost battery storage are emerging as "the dominant backbone" of a future global energy economy.  In this conversation, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins will discuss her recent paper on the Solar Dominance Hypothesis: the idea that in the 2020’s solar plus storage will emerge as part of a suite of highly disruptive energy technologies, and that driven by both the market and policy, within ten years 50% or more of power could be produced from solar plus storage. A solar plus storage market disruption, combined with rising civic action around other climate solutions, could open the road to “solve climate”—the energy side—over the next decade.

This webinar kicks off a year-long project: Solve Climate By 2030  sponsored by The Bard Center for Environmental Policy  The project takes as its starting point recent IPCC report that we have only ten years to forestall catastrophic climate change. Combining a national speakers network with a call for One-Night Teach-in’s, the project culminates on April 7, 2020 in a national Power Dialog: 52 simultaneous, university hosted webinars, one in every state, DC and Puerto Rico. In these webinars, local climate solutions experts will suggest the top three ambitious but feasible state, urban, utility or business initiatives that need to occur in Tennessee and Idaho, Missouri and New Jersey, Florida and Minnesota,  if we aim to forestall catastrophic climate change. Following these state webinars, classes and other groups tuning in will have 45 minutes for “solutions sprints” designed to identify civic action opportunities for participants.


Learn more at  Solve Climate By 2030 , and sign up here to stay informed. 

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Eban Goodstein /  Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability / Bard College

MBA in Sustainability
MS in Environmental Policy and MS in Climate Science and Policy
M. Ed in Environmental Education

845-758-7067
ebangood at bard.edu

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