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Solutions to Climate Change During Holiday Season
Carbon Zero Institute
Elton Sherwin
Executive Director
Carbon Zero Institute
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
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,
Overview
• Good News
• Bad News
• One Solution
Steve Westwell, Executive Vice President, BP
Billion toe Billion toe
World Has a Growing Appetite for Energy
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Non-OECD
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Renewables
Hydro
Nuclear
Coal
Gas
Oil
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* Includes biofuels
Energy Will Help Lift Millions Out of Poverty
http://dougrobbins.blogspot.com/2011/08/wealth-of-nations.html
Bad News: CO2 Emissions Will Continue to Go Up
Bad News is the World Gets Hotter
IPCC AR5 2013
Y’all
What is the fuss about 2 degrees?
Buck it up
Communication Problem
* Average World-wide temperature increase in Celsius, including the air over the oceans
Scientific Jargon*
Land Temp. Celsius
Texas and California
Fahrenheit 2 4 7 3 6 11 4 8 14 5 10 18 6 12 22
IPCC AR5 2013
Land Warms Twice as Much as the Ocean
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?
Today’s Sources Greenhouse Gases
and Climate Forcers
Coal
N. Gas
Oil transport
Deforest
Livestock Other • Soot • Garbage • Cement • Refrigerants • Solvents • Chemicals • Misc.
Other
Midcentury Need 2x Energy
Coal
N. Gas
Oil transport
-Tree
Livestock
Other Solar Wind
Conservation Efficiency
Coal
N. Gas
Oil transport
Deforest
Livestock
Other
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
Today, GigatonGifts
Coal
Deforest
Livestock
Other
-Tree
Livestock
Other
Conservation Efficiency
Solar Wind
Gigaton Kids & Gifts
Oil Transport
Natural Gas
What Can Individuals Do?
70 Suggestions
• Home & Business
The Carbon Zero Institute
• New approaches
• Act as the catalyst
Today, Holiday Gift Giving
This can have a
happy ending,
but first
Coal
Deforest
Livestock
Other
Gigaton Kids & Gifts
Oil Transport
Natural Gas
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
Some Descriptions Have an Adult and Youth Version
Omit In Youth Version
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