Some geoengineering techniques are better understood than others. The US is investing in capturing carbon dioxide from the air, but ideas to block the Sun’s rays are raising big concerns.
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Climate change board games can help players grasp the issues by experiencing them first-hand.
Climate innovation prizes only make up a small amount of climate research funding but are very high-profile events.
Two experts in policy and technology who were also co-authors of an international climate assessment see reasons for optimism.
Climate change and its solutions are complex. One way to understand them — and the decisions that come with them — is through “systemic storytelling.”
Learning lessons from the past could help reduce the impact of future industrialization.
This technology, popular when automobiles first caught on, had a short resurgence in the 1970s.
Solutions already exist. What’s holding humanity back is the will to get past the status quo and embrace innovation.
Planting trees and preventing deforestation can store carbon in nature, but the effect may only be temporary. If we also eliminate emissions from fossil fuels, even this temporary effect is important.
Most carbon dioxide captured in the U.S. today is used to extract more oil. Two scholars point to another way: biological sequestration.
As the state copes with hurricanes and climate disasters, it is figuring out how to manage the slow-motion loss of its coastal land. But its plans could endanger the cultures that define the region.
The Army Corps of Engineers is planning a sea wall 6 miles long and flood gates. The infrastructure might protect downtown from a hurricane storm surge, but most of the area will still be vulnerable.
Installing solar panels over California’s 4,000 miles of canals could generate less expensive, renewable energy, save water, fight climate change – and offer a solution for the thirsty American West.
The response to COVID-19 suggests how we can leverage entrepreneurial approaches to climate change.
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Associate Professor of Climate Change, Technology and Policy, Carleton University
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Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Professor Emeritus of Geography, Louisiana State University
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Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
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Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado Boulder
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Affiliate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University
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University Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of Miami
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Assistant Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Miami
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Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
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Professor in Chemical Engineering, University of British Columbia
