Creating an Ecosystem for a Carbon Balanced Planet
WHEN
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 from 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM (PDT)
WHERE
DLA PIPER – 555 MISSION STREET #2400, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105
Creating an Ecosystem for a Carbon Balanced Planet
Join Graciela Chichilnisky, CEO of Global Thermostat for an interactive workshop that
brings together leaders from across disciplines to create tangible projects for the
development of innovative carbon solutions. This workshop will explore how Bay Area
business, policy, and NGO leaders can partner with local carbon removal solution
developers. Workshop attendees will participate in a design charrette with the goal of
identifying measurable projects. Together we will advance the development of a carbon
balanced planet.
Graciela Chichilnisky is a world renowned economist and
mathematician, the creator of the Carbon Market of the UN Kyoto
Protocol, the concept of Basic Needs and the formal theory of
Sustainable Development. She acted as Lead US Author of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the Nobel
Prize in 2007. Her pioneering work uses innovative market
mechanisms to create Green Capitalism.
Chichilnisky is a visiting professor at Stanford University and a
professor of Statistics and Economics and Columbia University. She
acts as a special adviser to the UN and is the CEO and Co-Founder of
Global Thermostat, a company in which she co-invented a “CarbonNegative Technology”™ that captures CO2 from air and transforms it
into profitable assets such as biofuels, beverages and polymers.