gigaton kids project

The Gigaton Gifts

Elton Sherwin Executive Director Carbon Zero Institute

esherwin@CZ-I.org

A Project of The

Carbon Zero Institute

Background

Almost 3 billion people use polluting, inefficient stoves and open fires to cook their food

Hurts Families

Fine particles lodge deep in the lungs

Kills 3 million women and children

More deaths than malaria

Hurts the Community

Trees are cut

Soil erodes

Soot heats the air

Lands on snow and glaciers

Hurts the Planet

Kerosene Lamps Make the Situation Worse

About 1 ½ billion people use kerosene lamps

Creates more soot and carcinogens

Dangerous

I was born in a village where there were no tap water and electricity. I was using kerosene lamps to study at night. They are very convenient, but also very polluting. You have red eyes very quickly and black nose.

Mawuna Remarque Koutonin

Gigaton Gifts

Empower shoppers in rich countries to make a meaningful difference in places where

– $6 plants 25 trees

– $15 is an extreme kitchen makeover

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Gigaton Kids Program Two Part Strategy

Part 2- early 2014

Downloadable curriculum (grades 3-12) • Short video-based

• Easy teacher prep

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Today

www.GigatonGifts.org

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Each Gift Comes with a

Description

• Gift, • Stocking stuffer • Include a tree in

each holiday card

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Print or Email

Some Descriptions Have an Adult and Youth Version

Omit In Youth Version

More Complete Story

When you cut and burn too many trees:

Environmental devastation and poverty and trafficking and misery

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GigatonGifts.org

1. Health benefits

2. Environmental benefits

3. Economic development

– Most of money is spent in poor communities

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GigatonGifts Long-term Vision

• Plant a billion trees

• Eliminate open and inefficient cooking fires

• Eliminate kerosene lamps

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Carbon Zero Institute

Promote Large, Innovative Solutions

Facilitate Gigaton Scale Projects

• Catalyst for big projects with no advocates

• Innovative partnerships with NGOs

• Innovative partnerships with business

Focused on climate change

10,000 years of CO2

Net Zero Mid Century

Board of Directors Donald Kennedy, PhD • President Emeritus Stanford University

• Editor in Chief, Science, 2000-2008

• Commissioner, U.S. FDA, 1977-79

Jon Foster • CFO of LS9, Inc., (advanced biofuels and biochemicals)

• Board of Directors of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF)

• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 1995-1997

Marion O’Leary, PhD • Consultant for the Carnegie Institution for Science.

• Previously, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics California State University, Sacramento

Lisa Van Dusen • Director, Partner Engagement & External Relations, SV2

• Co-directed Leadership Palo Alto, 2012-13

• Creator & Host, First Person, interview series of SV change makers

Executive Team

Elton Sherwin, Executive Director

• 30 years of business experience

• IBM, Motorola and venture capital

• Twelve board seats, including DrillMap

• Author and authority on the business economics of climate change

Craig Wesley, Co-founder

• Board of directors of Energy Efficient & Sustainability Consulting (EES)

• President of Southwall Films (recently sold)

• A LEED® Accredited expert in energy efficiency

The Carbon Zero Institute

Real Solutions to

Protect the Climate

www.CarbonZeroInstitute.org

10,000 years of CO2

FAQs

Frequent Questions

• Who plants the trees?

• Who designs and builds the cookstoves?

• Who designs and builds the solar lights?

Answers

• Carbon Zero partners with and funds NGO’s who have a track record of success in each of these areas.

Appendix

Y’all

What is the fuss about 2 degrees?

Buck it up

Communication Problem

* Average World-wide temperature increase in Celsius, including the air over the oceans

Scientific Jargon*

Land Temp. Celsius

Texas and California

Fahrenheit 2 4 7 3 6 11 4 8 14 5 10 18 6 12 22

IPCC AR5 2013

Land Warms Twice as Much as the Ocean

The chief economist for the International Energy Agency:

Current global energy consumption levels put the Earth on a trajectory to warm by 6 degrees Celsius

Scientific Jargon*

Land Temp. Celsius

Texas and California

Fahrenheit 2 4 7 3 6 11 4 8 14 5 10 18 6 12 22

“…catastrophe for all of us”

Fatih Birol: opening day of annual U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa

IPCC AR5 RCP85

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My Head

Hurts!

How Do We Even

Begin to Solve

This Problem?

Today’s Sources Greenhouse Gases

and Climate Forcers

Coal

N. Gas

Oil transport

Deforest

Livestock Other • Soot • Garbage • Cement • Refrigerants • Solvents • Chemicals • Misc.

Other

Midcentury Need 2x Energy

Coal

N. Gas

Oil transport

-Tree

Livestock

Other Solar Wind

Conservation Efficiency

Coal

N. Gas

Oil transport

Deforest

Livestock

Other

No Silver Bullet Carbon Zero Institute Launchpad Projects

Coal N. Gas Oil

Deforest

Livestock

Other

Coal

N. Gas

Oil transport

-Tree

Livestock

Other

Conservation Efficiency

Ice Batteries

Smart Fridge

Hall of Shame

HVAC 4 Zero

PM 4 Zero

Water 4 Zero

Solar Wind

Zero Meat

Zero Dairy

Gigaton Kids

Reforestation

Cookstoves

Solar Lighting

CH4 Monitor

CO2 Capture

Biosequestra.

Zero Cities

Zero Company

Zero Utility

Zero Fund

LCFS

Gigaton Gifts