[geo] REMINDER Professor Chris Field in conversation on the Climate Overshoot Commission report 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.  Jesse Reynolds muse.ai The COC report Reducing the Risks of Climate Overshoot was released on September 14.  0c3b70_bab3b3c1cd394745b387a594c9a68e2b PDF Document · 10.7 MB 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 Field is the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University.  Prior to his 2016 appointment at the Stanford Woods Institute, Field was a staff member at the Carnegie Institution for Science (1984-2002) and founding director of the Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology (2002-2016).  Field's research focuses on climate change, especially solutions that improve lives now, decrease the amount of future warming, and support vibrant economies. Recent projects emphasize decreasing risks from coastal flooding and wildfires. He has been deeply involved with national and international-efforts to advance understanding of global ecology and climate change. Field was co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2008-2015), where he led the effort on “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” (2012), and “Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability(2014). He was co-chair of the committee that produced the groundbreaking 2021 NASEM report that laid out a solar geoengineering (their term) research agenda.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford. Please feel free to circulate this invitation to friends and colleagues.  Herb Herb Simmens Author of A Climate Vocabulary of the Future “A SciencePoem and an Inspiration.” Kim Stanley Robinson @herbsimmens HerbSimmens.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/3580E3E7-B0EB-465C-9CDB-C361C37FA5F6%40gmail.com.