can carbon footprint contribute to sustainability projects webinar gaia_education_earthdeeds
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Webinar giving an overview of current responses to climate change, including carbon on & offsetting. Find out how to measure and reduce our carbon footprint, how to acknowledge the costs of these impacts and generate funds that can effectively contribute to any sustainability project. Daniel Greenberg, founder of Earth Deeds, in collaboration with Gaia Education are committed to educating active change agents who use their skills, relationships, and resources to create sustainable communities and a healthy planet. This is the first of a series of webinars on sustainability design that covers the four dimensions of the Gaia Education Curriculum: social, ecological, economic and worldview. more information: www.gaiaeducation.netTRANSCRIPT
Gaia Education At the Cutting-Edge of Sustainability Education
In Partnership with Earth Deeds
Catalyzing Carbon Consciousness An Alterna3ve to Carbon Offse7ng
July 15, 2014 Presented by Daniel Greenberg
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Catalyzing Carbon Consciousness • Climate change 101
• Future scenarios
• Governmental and corporate responses
• Personal response
• Carbon offse7ng overview and challenges
• Onse7ng and Earth Deeds
h"p://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/wha4s.htm
The Carbon “Bathtub”
SOURCES: Fossil Fuel Combus6on
Deforesta6on
SINKS: Ocean Uptake Land Uptake
CO2 Levels
Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels 1900 -‐ 2008
CO2 E
missions (T
eragrams C
O2)
h"p://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html
h"p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve
h"p://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/pastcc_fig1.html
CO2 and Global Temperature
h"p://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf
IPCC Es3mates
~37°C – Normal
+1-‐2°C – Fever • Headache • Weakness
+2-‐3°C – High Fever • Hallucina6ons • Convulsions
+4-‐5°C – Very High Fever • Brain Damage • Death?
Is 4-‐5°C a big deal?
~14°C – Normal
+1-‐2°C – Fever
+2-‐3°C – High Fever
+4-‐5°C – Very High Fever
Is 4-‐5°C a big deal? 19° 18° 17° 16° 15° 14°
• Collapse of ocean circula6on (50%) • Greenland ice sheet melt (60%) • 40-‐70% species ex6nc6on risk
• Increased ex6nc6on risk • Global crop decline
• Glacial melt
h"p://www.greenpeace.org/interna4onal/Global/ interna4onal/publica4ons/climate/2013/PointOfNoReturn.pdf
• Widespread coral reef mortality • Extreme weather
• Environmental refugees
h"p://www.greenpeace.org/interna4onal/Global/interna4onal/publica4ons/climate/2013/PointOfNoReturn.pdf
Where Are We Heading?
2011 Durban Plaborm for
Enhanced Ac6on adopted
82% have emissions targets
Most are short term
Average ~1% per year
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Inefficient transfer of funds Neutrality = “Indulgences”
Market Incen6ves
Inadequate market-‐based pricing Addi6onality difficult to prove Large, non-‐local projects
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Neutrality = “Indulgences” Inadequate market-‐based pricing Addi6onality difficult to prove Large, non-‐local projects
Efficient transfer of funds
Onse7ng
Posi6ve “pay-‐it-‐forward” story
Social Cost of Carbon
Price based on scien6fic evidence Support exis6ng projects Small, local projects
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Inefficient transfer of funds
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Neutrality = “Indulgences”
Addi6onality difficult to prove Large, non-‐local projects
Efficient transfer of funds Posi6ve “pay-‐it-‐forward” story Price based on scien6fic evidence Support exis6ng projects Small, local projects
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Daniel Greenberg, Ph.D. "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." -‐ St. Francis of Assisi
