{"id":64205,"date":"2008-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-honors-colloquium-energy-expert-to-examine-solutions-to-climate-change-dec-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T00:00:00","slug":"uri-honors-colloquium-energy-expert-to-examine-solutions-to-climate-change-dec-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/11\/uri-honors-colloquium-energy-expert-to-examine-solutions-to-climate-change-dec-2\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium: Energy expert to examine solutions to climate change, Dec. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPrinceton energy expert to examine solutions to climate change <\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 24, 2008 \u2013 Robert Socolow, co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University, will present the final lecture in the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 2008 Honors Colloquium on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n


\nHis presentation, \u201cSolutions to the Global Carbon and Climate Problem,\u201d will be held in Edwards Auditorium on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Honors Colloquium, \u201cPeople and Planet: Global Environmental Change,\u201d explores human-caused global change, its consequences and potential responses through a series of lectures, films, exhibits and a cabaret.<\/p>\n


\n\tAn internationally recognized expert on energy and global carbon management, Socolow\u2019s research interests include carbon dioxide capture from fossil fuels and storage in geological formations, nuclear power, energy efficiency in buildings, and the acceleration of deployment of advanced technologies in developing countries. He is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the former director of Princeton\u2019s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn his lecture, Socolow will provide \u201cuseful quantitative insight into the monumental challenge of mitigating climate change. The Earth is our subject of study,\u201d he said, \u201cand carbon flows generated by human activity are the agents of change.\u201d Socolow will also introduce \u201ca new scheme for assigning responsibility across industrialized and developing countries, one that bases \u2018fairness\u2019 on individual emissions and takes specific account of the rich in poor countries and the poor in rich countries.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Carbon Mitigation Initiative, which Socolow co-directs, is a joint project of Princeton, British Petroleum and Ford Motor Co. to find solutions to the greenhouse gas problem. It works to identify the most effective, safe and affordable methods of capturing and sequestering a large percentage of carbon emissions from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n


\n\tTime Magazine has described Socolow and co-director Stephen Pacala as strategists who \u201chave come up with a remarkably straightforward way of approaching [global warming]. To stabilize the world’s carbon emissions, they propose not chasing a single magic bullet but harnessing seven different categories of reduction, using available technology. Their goal is to draw a road map for reducing CO2 emissions that is both realistic and effective. Each of the strategies they have identified could prevent a total of 25 billion tons of emissions by 2056.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe final Honors Colloquium event will be It\u2019s a Shore Thing \u2013 A Coastal Cabaret, which will use music to take a whimsical look at global environmental change along Rhode Island\u2019s coastlines. The event will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n


\nThe major sponsors of the 2008 Honors Colloquium are the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of the President, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography and the College of Arts and Sciences. Additional support came from the Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley Honors Colloquium Endowment, the Mark and Donna Ross Honors Colloquium Humanities Endowment, the deans of the remaining 溏心vlog免费B站 colleges, the offices of the 溏心vlog免费B站 vice presidents, the EPA Atlantic Ecology Division and Rhode Island Sea Grant.<\/p>\n

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\nFor further details about the colloquium, including an updated schedule and information on parking, go to www.uri.edu\/hc<\/a> or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Princeton energy expert to examine solutions to climate change KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 24, 2008 \u2013 Robert Socolow, co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University, will present the final lecture in the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 2008 Honors Colloquium on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. His presentation, \u201cSolutions to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}