Climate Conversations: Decarbonization

The Climate Communication Initiative coordinates efforts across the National Academies to facilitate rapid and effective communication of evidence-based insights to an attentive public and critical decision makers.All future events in theClimate Conversations: Pathways to Actionseries after November 18, 2022 will have registration through our website. View past and upcoming webinars here:https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/climate-conversations-pathways-to-action

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Join us for a conversation about what it means to decarbonize, and quick and equitable actions to put the US on a path to net-zero by 2050.

NOTE: The webinar will be webcast on<a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/02-18-2021/climate-conversations-decarbonization" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> the event webpage</a>. <a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/climate-conversations-pathways-to-action" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action</a> is a new monthly webinar series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that aims to convene high-level, cross-cutting, nonpartisan conversations about issues relevant to national policy action on climate change.For the inaugural webinar, Mariette DiChristina (Boston University) will be facilitating a conversation with Ben Preston (the RAND Corporation) and Steve Pacala (Princeton University; Chair, Committee on Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technological, Policy, and Societal Dimensions), about the most actionable opportunities for decarbonization in the United States, including but not limited to recommendations from the recent National Academies report: <a href="https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25932/accelerating-decarbonization-of-the-us-energy-system" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Accelerating Decarbonization of the United States Energy System</a>.Join us for the climate conversation on Thursday, February 18, 2021 from 3-4pm ET.<h3></h3><h3>Participant Bios:</h3>Stephen W. Pacala is the Frederick D. Petrie Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, where he directs the Carbon Mitigation Initiative. He is the Chair of the National Academies Committee on Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technological, Policy, and Societal Dimensions. Benjamin Preston is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and director of Community Health and Environmental Policy, a program of RAND Social and Economic Well-Being, and currently serves as coeditor-in-chief for the Elsevier journal Climate Risk Management. Mariette DiChristina is the dean of the College of Communication at Boston University and a nationally recognized science journalist, most recently as editor-in-chief and executive vice president of Scientific American.Closed captioning will be provided during the webinar.

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