[geo] Abstract submission for Climate Engineering Conference 2014 in Berlin
Hello all, As you may know, *Climate Engineering Conference 2014: Critical Global Discussions* will be the largest international conference on climate engineering to date and will take place August 18-21 in Berlin, Germany. The conference will feature 40+ sessions on a broad range of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary (featuring non-academic contributions) topics. *We have recently extended the deadline for submission of abstracts and other contributions to the conference until June 23rd. *If you are interested in taking part in the conference please consider submitting an abstract outlining what kind of contribution you would like to make to the conference or a session therein. More information can be fond at http://ce-conference.org/call-abstracts-and-other-contributions Please direct additional inquires to i...@ce-conference.org Warm regards on behalf of the CEC14 Steering Committee, Nigel Moore -- 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 post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[geo] Maybe it is hopeless
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full To reduce humanity's environmental footprint toward a sustainable level, it is necessary to reach consensus on footprint caps at different scales, from global to national or river-basin scale. Footprint caps need to be related to both production and consumption (32http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-32, 55http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-55). The various components of the environmental footprint of humanity must be reduced to remain within planetary boundaries. Improved technologies (eco-efficiency) alone will not be sufficient to reach this goal; consumption patterns will need to alter as well (39http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-39). How such cultural shift and transformative change in the global economy could take place remains an open question. It is clear, however, that such change will profoundly affect all sectors of the economy. There are always several entities playing a role in causing a footprint: the investors, the suppliers, the recipients, and the regulators. Hence, the responsibility for moving toward a sustainable footprint is to be shared among them (32http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-32, 56http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-56). The way societies and economies have institutionalized responsibility is clearly insufficient to warrant environmental sustainability, eco-efficiency, fair sharing, and long-term resource security. Exploring how we can better institutionalize full supply-chain responsibility is one of humanity's major research challenges toward achieving a sustainable future. Good luck! Greg -- 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 post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [geo] Maybe it is hopeless
Whatever happened to the days when articles with factual empirical statements were labeled as research or review articles, and articles saying what should be done were labeled as opinion articles? There seems to be a trend wherein prescription is presented as if it were an objective research result. ___ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross dr...@carnegiescience.edu On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Rau, Greg r...@llnl.gov wrote: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full To reduce humanity's environmental footprint toward a sustainable level, it is necessary to reach consensus on footprint caps at different scales, from global to national or river-basin scale. Footprint caps need to be related to both production and consumption (*32* http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-32, *55* http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-55). The various components of the environmental footprint of humanity must be reduced to remain within planetary boundaries. Improved technologies (eco-efficiency) alone will not be sufficient to reach this goal; consumption patterns will need to alter as well (*39* http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-39). How such cultural shift and transformative change in the global economy could take place remains an open question. It is clear, however, that such change will profoundly affect all sectors of the economy. There are always several entities playing a role in causing a footprint: the investors, the suppliers, the recipients, and the regulators. Hence, the responsibility for moving toward a sustainable footprint is to be shared among them (*32* http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-32, *56* http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1114.full#ref-56). The way societies and economies have institutionalized responsibility is clearly insufficient to warrant environmental sustainability, eco-efficiency, fair sharing, and long-term resource security. Exploring how we can better institutionalize full supply-chain responsibility is one of humanity's major research challenges toward achieving a sustainable future. Good luck! Greg -- 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 post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
