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Solutions to Climate Change During Holiday Season
Carbon Zero Institute
Elton Sherwin
Executive Director
Carbon Zero Institute
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The 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
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Elton B. Sherwin Executive Director of
The Carbon Zero Institute 埃尔顿.宣威 执行董事 零碳研究所
www.EltonSherwin.com
Recovering Venture Capitalist
Environmentalist
Author
创业投资,环保人士,
Eight patents Twelve company board of
directors 八项专利
十二公司董事会 www.cz-i.org
作者,
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Overview
• Good News
• Bad News
• One Solution
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Steve Westwell, Executive Vice President, BP
Billion toe Billion toe
World Has a Growing Appetite for Energy
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Renewables
Hydro
Nuclear
Coal
Gas
Oil
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* Includes biofuels
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Energy Will Help Lift Millions Out of Poverty
http://dougrobbins.blogspot.com/2011/08/wealth-of-nations.html
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Bad News: CO2 Emissions Will Continue to Go Up
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Bad News is the World Gets Hotter
IPCC AR5 2013
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Y’all
What is the fuss about 2 degrees?
Buck it up
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Communication Problem
* Average World-wide temperature increase in Celsius, including the air over the oceans
Scientific Jargon*
Land Temp. Celsius
Texas and California
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IPCC AR5 2013
Land Warms Twice as Much as the Ocean
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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?
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Today’s Sources Greenhouse Gases
and Climate Forcers
Coal
N. Gas
Oil transport
Deforest
Livestock Other • Soot • Garbage • Cement • Refrigerants • Solvents • Chemicals • Misc.
Other
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Midcentury Need 2x Energy
Coal
N. Gas
Oil transport
-Tree
Livestock
Other Solar Wind
Conservation Efficiency
Coal
N. Gas
Oil transport
Deforest
Livestock
Other
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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
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Today, GigatonGifts
Coal
Deforest
Livestock
Other
-Tree
Livestock
Other
Conservation Efficiency
Solar Wind
Gigaton Kids & Gifts
Oil Transport
Natural Gas
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What Can Individuals Do?
70 Suggestions
• Home & Business
The Carbon Zero Institute
• New approaches
• Act as the catalyst
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Today, Holiday Gift Giving
This can have a
happy ending,
but first
Coal
Deforest
Livestock
Other
Gigaton Kids & Gifts
Oil Transport
Natural Gas
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Background
Almost 3 billion people use polluting, inefficient stoves and open fires to cook their food
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Hurts Families
Fine particles lodge deep in the lungs
Kills 3 million women and children
More deaths than malaria
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Hurts the Community
Trees are cut
Soil erodes
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Soot heats the air
Lands on snow and glaciers
Hurts the Planet
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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
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Some Descriptions Have an Adult and Youth Version
Omit In Youth Version
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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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How You Can Help
GigatonGifts
• Shop at GigatonGifts
– Individual
– Company gifts
• Volunteers
– Rotary section
Sponsors
• Add ten countries/yr.
• Carbon Zero Institute
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Elton Sherwin