Lectures & Lecturers
Prof. Colin Price
9:30am - 10:45am - A Roadmap for solving the Climate Crisis - Prof. Colin Price
Prof. Colin Price
When talking about solving the climate crisis, people normally mention "net zero". The implications are that we need to reach net zero (not zero) emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. But how do we get there? What needs to be done? This is perhaps the most complex climate issue facing us over the coming decades. Given that humanity is adding around 40-50 G tons of CO2 equivalent to the atmosphere every year, we need to figure out how to reduce this number to zero! In other words, zero additions to the atmospheric concentrations, and eventually moving to "negative" emissions, implying that annually we remove more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere that we emit into the atmosphere. In this talk I will provide a roadmap that we need to follow to reach net-zero in the coming decades. It won't be easy, but it is possible.