Getting the Carbon Out of Energy Systems
Posted October 19, 2015 at 5:52 am by Tim Dustrude
Dr. Daniel Kammen – Contributed photo
On Friday, October 23, internationally acclaimed energy-policy expert and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Daniel Kammen will present at Brickworks in Friday Harbor. All are welcome to attend and meet Dr. Kammen, hear his ideas, and participate in a lively discussion about local and global climate and energy solutions. The reception starts at 6:30 PM and the talk begins at 7:00 PM.
“Dramatic changes are taking place in the energy options available to people, communities and nations interested in pursuing low-carbon pathways,” observes Kammen. Dr. Kammen will describe the successes and challenges that are taking place in homes across the globe in implementing successful low-carbon pathways. His focus will range from small community scale efforts to decarbonize, to actions on the national scale – in the European Union, United Sates, and China. He will also examine and discuss the prospects for a global accord in the upcoming Paris climate talks, and what this could mean for energy and climate risks worldwide.
Dr. Kammen is a Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley and the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory. He has served as a lead author on reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999 and shared the IPCC’s 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” He serves on the Advisory Committee for Energy & Environment for the X-Prize Foundation, served as the World Bank Group’s Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, and contributed to the Pope’s encyclical.
The San Juan Islands Conservation District, Islands Energy, and OPALCO are proudly sponsoring this free event. For more information, click here or call 360-378-6621.
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