Please join CELI for our first national educational webinar: Emissions Overshoot: The Role of Negative Emission Technologies and Solar Geoengineering in the Climate Crisis.

Under the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, all scenarios for limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius depend on negative emissions technologies, and the report notes that solar geoengineering may be a temporary “remedial measure” if the world heads towards dangerous levels of warming. However, these technologies and system-level interventions are not well understood and are often conflated. This webinar will focus on solar geoengineering and carbon removal approaches to address climate change. Join Dr. Shuchi Talati to look more closely at each of these categories individually, learn why and how these approaches are being considered, discuss issues around equity and the scientific and political status of these technologies.

Dr. Shuchi Talati is the Geoengineering Research, Governance and Public Engagement Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Dr. Talati works to guide sound governance and public engagement for research into proposed solar geoengineering approaches to limit global warming, and is an independent advisory committee member for Harvard’s solar geoengineering experiment SCoPEx.

Prior to joining UCS, Dr. Talati was the AAAS/AIP Congressional Science Fellow in the offices of Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Senator Al Franken (D-MN). Before working in Congress, she was a post-doctoral fellow in science policy at the American Meteorological Society, where she worked on geoengineering risk perception and governance. She served at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Obama Administration and has also worked at various environmental non-profit organizations.

Dr. Talati earned a BS in environmental engineering from Northwestern University, an MA in climate and society from Columbia University, and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in engineering and public policy. Her doctoral research focused on the climate-energy-water nexus looking specifically at the impacts of domestic climate regulations and low carbon electricity generation.

The webinar will be held from 6:00-7:00pm Eastern.