Reminder of today's (Sep. 18) HPAC meeting: Community discussion of Cynthia Sharf podcast and near-term cooling governance

[Ron Baiman]

Dear Colleagues, 

I'm pleased to announce that our next HPAC General Meeting will feature a community discussion of this excellent Peter Irvine interview SRM360 podcast: SRM Governance with Cynthia Sharf : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/srm-governance-with-cynthia-scharf/id1779965690?i=1000697526577

Link to the meeting: 

Time: 5.30 pm Thursday 18 September Eastern Time = 10.30 pm UK = 7.30 am Friday 19 September Eastern Australia time. 

 Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88954851189?pwd=2OEdvleb4UpYfK4a950ryohFWcw93F.1

 PLEASE NOTE: Zoom now requires a passcode for meeting security.  The code for this meeting is 662519

This a loosely edited transcription of the Sharf podcast interview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XYgfjR7k3uaDQdOgq23y3jvigzrZAPcu/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116465941111195452408&rtpof=true&sd=true

Please listen to, and/or review, this before the meeting!

Cynthia Scharf is Senior Fellow  - Climate Interventions at the Centre for Future Generations, steering our work on climate intervention technologies and briefing senior climate officials in the EU and globally on the need to develop international guardrails and guidelines for solar geoengineering. Prior to this, she served for seven years as the senior strategy director for the Carnegie Climate Governance (C2G) Initiative, which focused on governance for geoengineering and large-scale carbon removals. Cynthia has published articles on these topics in Foreign Policy, Science, and Fortune Magazine, among others. She’s addressed audiences at the Vatican, World Bank, Arctic Circle Assembly, Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, Columbia, American Geophysical Union, Natural History Museum in NY, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories in the U.S. Cynthia previously served as the head of strategic communications and chief speechwriter on climate change for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from 2009-2016. She supported and advised the Secretary-General during the UNFCCC negotiations, including the landmark Paris climate change agreement in 2015. She received her M.A. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and serves on the advisory group of Climate Interactive and SRM360. She was also a fellow at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and served on the board of GreenFaith, a multi-faith climate organization. (From: https://cfg.eu/team/cynthia-scharf/)

In addition Dennis will  announce and talk about the upcoming HPAC Global Online Conference Oct. 15-16, 20205.  Preventing 2°C by 2040: What’s the Plan? Register here: https://www.preventing2degrees.org/ 

Please spread the word!

And Ron, Mike and other HPAC Urgent climate cooling Response WG members will provide a short overview of the "The Triad Approach to Preventing Near-Term Climate Catastrophe": https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wP8krMJiDKARs5T_kXPvODmzIkFqBeLF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116465941111195452408&rtpof=true&sd=true

Hope you can make it!

Best,

Ron

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[rob...@rtulip.net]

Here is the temporary recording of this very interesting meeting just now, with video, audio, chat and transcript, for upload to HPAC website

 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/511f77y7ax8x67s6k2xuf/ADRESJRDXrW2SXqjv7eBq5U?rlkey=xisbivgh6pjrxurrlgvq1ino6&st=sqzhzghz&dl=0

 

Regards

 

Robert Tulip

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