Professor Chris Field in conversation on the Climate Overshoot Commission at the Healthy Planet Action Coalition meeting September 21, 4:30 PM EDT

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I am pleased to announce that Stanford Professor Chris Field, an advisor to the Climate Overshoot Commission (COC) will be our guest at the next Healthy Planet Action Coalition meeting this Thursday, September 21, at 4:30 PM EDT for 90 minutes. 

Mike MacCracken will moderate the conversation.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88954851189?pwd=WVZoeTBnN3kyZFoyLzYxZ1JNbDFPUT09

Access to previous HPAC meeting conversations can be found at

Healthyplanetaction.Org 

The Commission, a private entity sponsored by the Paris Peace Forum, has 12 members from all over the planet drawn mostly from those who previously held high-level governmental positions,  including several with strong backgrounds in climate change. 

Their previous Director Dr Jesse Reynolds spoke with HPAC in January. 

The COC report Reducing the Risks of Climate Overshoot was released on September 14. 

While the COC did not solicit public input it did hold a series of meetings to learn and discuss the full range of questions facing the international community in dealing with the risk of climate overshoot. 

Their 4-part high-level recommendations were summarized in the acronym CARE, for Cut (emissions), Adapt, Remove (CO2), and Explore (SRM).

Specifically, its recommendation on climate intervention advocated expanding research while placing "a moratorium on the deployment of solar radiation modification and large-scale outdoor experiments that would carry risk of significant transboundary harm." 

We look forward to getting a fuller understanding of their reasoning in discussion with Professor Field.

Chris was co-chair of the committee that produced the groundbreaking 2021 NASEM report that laid out a solar geoengineering (their term) research agenda. 

Below is a link to a 2021 conversation on SRM deployment between Chris and Marcia McNutt, the President of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Please feel free to circulate this invitation to friends and colleagues. 

Herb

Herb Simmens
Author of A Climate Vocabulary of the Future

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