Seminars
PESTL, together with the Penn State's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and Center for Climate Risk Management, is hosting the Earth Talks seminar series in Fall 2019.
Energy Systems and the Dynamics of Deep Decarbonization
Mondays, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, 112 Walker Building, Penn State's University Park Campus
Achieving truly deep decarbonization is a uniquely difficult problem requiring fundamental changes in multiple interconnected systems (energy, agriculture, industry). Decisions made with the intent of avoiding the most severe climate change climatic impacts happen in the face of deep and dynamic uncertainties. Deep decarbonization decisions may also create multiple winners and losers and is thus a problem of managing social change in addition to technology transition. This Earth Talks series will invite prominent researchers to give talks on energy systems transition, negative carbon emissions, terrestrial sequestration, decision-making under uncertainty, and public policy relevant to deep decarbonization.
Fall 2019 Speakers:
- October 7: Lindsay Anderson, Kathy Dwyer Marble and Curt Marble Faculty Director for Energy, Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future Cornell University
- October 14: Jae Edmonds, Chief Scientist and Battelle Fellow, Joint Global Change Research Institute Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- October 21: Hari Osofsky, Dean, Penn State Law
- October 28: Klaus Lackner, Director, Center for Negative Carbon Emissions Arizona State University
- November 4: Tom Richard, Director, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment
- November 11: Gary Geernaert, Director, Climate and Environmental Sciences Division U.S. Department of Energy
- November 18: Leon Clarke, Research Director, Center for Global Sustainability University of Maryland