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V. (Ram) RamanathanScripps Institution of OceanographyUniversity of California at San Diego
Ten Scalable Solutions for the Climate Change Problem
June 21, 2017
Atmosphere
How much climate pollution is in this thin shell?
Added 2,000,000,000,000 tons of CO2 since 1750
1975 discovery of Halocarbons as Super-greenhouse gases put Non-CO2 greenhouse gases on par with CO2
SCIENCE1975Science, 1975
Our Children and Grand Children will witness a rapidly & adversely changing and unpredictable world…
20 yrs 35 Yrs
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Xu and Ramanathan, 2017
20502030
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EXCEEDING 2 CBY 2050
Ramanathan et al, 2015
Ten Solutions byThe UC-FIFTY
Two time scales:
From now to 2030
From 2030 to 2050
Six Clusters
Science Solutions
Societal Transfor-mation
Solutions
GovernanceSolutions
Technology Based
Solutions
Natural & Managed Ecosystem Solutions
Market & Regulation
Based Solutions
1. Bend the warming curve immediately by reducing short-lived climate pollutants & sustainably by replacing fossil-fueled energy systems with carbon neutral technologies
SCIENCE SOLUTIONS
1. .2. Foster a global culture of climate action through
communication and education; Develop innovative approaches to change social attitudes and behavior.
3. Deepen the global culture of climate collaboration:stakeholders, community, and religious leaders with researchers to initiate collaborative actions to mitigate climate disruption
SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION SOLUTIONS
These address Intra- & Inter-Generational Equity
An Alliance betweenScience,
Religion &Policy
May 2014
Societal Transformation: A dialogue thatIncludes everyone
Need to bring health-care into the alliance 7 million die every year from air pollution
Millions are expected to be displaced, lose their livelihood and subject to migration due to climate disruption
Heat stress will impact habitability of the Planet for people and mammalsWithout adequate mitigation and adaptation, climate change poses unacceptable risks to global health..... Lancet Commission, 2015
Climate and Health Summit at VaticanSponsored by Pontifical Academy of SciencesWHO; UCSD Institute of Public Health; …
Climate Mitigation Train has already left8.1 million people Renewable industry
EU and US emissions have been trending downwards since 2000-2005
53 cities and 65 industries are decarbonizing already
California is the living laboratory
Bottom up efforts are needed to scale up