Climate Change Solution: Forests & Carbon Sinks ft. Bill Moomaw

How to Solve Climate Change

Today you will learn from expert guest Merritt Dailey about direct air capture systems, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.

Timestamps:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (01:54) - What are forests?
• (03:01) - Why would forests help to solve climate change?
• (05:07) - Why would forests not help to solve climate change?
• (06:56) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
• (10:35) - How does forests work?
• (14:38) - Recommended resources
• (16:09) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
• (18:05) - Final Recommendations
• (20:21) - Activity

Dr. Bill Moomaw was also founding director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts Climate Initiative, and co-founder of the Global Development and Environment Institute.

His research interests include increasing the role of forests and wetlands to achieve climate goals, energy technology and policies that address climate change, water and climate change, economics and geochemistry of the nitrogen cycle, sustainable development, and negotiation strategies for environmental agreements.

Dr. Moomaw has been a lead author of five major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. As a Science Fellow, he worked in the U.S. Senate on energy and forestry legislation and on legislation that eliminated American use of CFCs in spray cans to protect the ozone layer. He was the first director of the climate program at the World Resources Institute in 1988 where he met board member, George Woodwell. He has been elected an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.

He is the past chair of the Woodwell Climate board, and currently serves on the boards of The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Center for Ecological Technologies, and the Consensus Building Institute. He graduated from Williams College and holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT.

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