Clean Energy & Development in the Americas

The Global Thermostat Solution

Graciela Chichilnisky Columbia University & Global ThermostatIBDB Washington DC February 13, 2013

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CLOSING THE CARBON CYCLE FOR ENERGY, ECONOMIC, AND CLIMATE SUSTAINABILITY

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Global Thermostat Pipeline of Projects

• SABIC - carbon capture & EOR• Corning – carbon capture partners• Linde – industrial gases and EOR• Sapphire - algae biofuels• Reliance – refinery clean up Biofuels and EOR• IHI – power plant clean up – sale for EOR• Synthetic Genomics – CO2 for food and biofuels• AS – waste to clean water and biofuels

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What about the Americas?

Collaboration with IADB• Projects pipeline in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico• Small Island States• Cleaning the Atmosphere while Growing the

Economy• Capacity Building in the Americas• Columbia & Stanford Universities• Using Clean Development Mechanism funding• Carbon Market of the Kyoto Protocol

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The World Needs Energy

Successful Global Initiatives:• Basic Needs• Sustainable Development• The Carbon Market of the Kyoto Protocol• The Green Power Fund• Carbon Negative Power Plants & the CDM

Next : Negative Carbon Technology

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Global Thermostat

A Carbon Negative Solution

Clean Energy for the Americas