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Solutions to Climate Change During Holiday Season

Carbon Zero Institute

Elton Sherwin

Executive Director

Carbon Zero Institute

esherwin@cz-i.org

The Carbon Zero Institute

Promote Large, Innovative Solutions

Facilitate Gigaton Scale Projects

• Catalyst for big projects with no advocates

• Innovative partnerships with NGOs

• Innovative partnerships with business

Focused on climate change

10,000 years of CO2

Net Zero Mid Century

Elton B. Sherwin Executive Director of

The Carbon Zero Institute 埃尔顿.宣威 执行董事 零碳研究所

www.EltonSherwin.com

Recovering Venture Capitalist

Environmentalist

Author

创业投资,环保人士,

Eight patents Twelve company board of

directors 八项专利

十二公司董事会 www.cz-i.org

作者,

Overview

• Good News

• Bad News

• One Solution

Steve Westwell, Executive Vice President, BP

Billion toe Billion toe

World Has a Growing Appetite for Energy

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Non-OECD

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Renewables

Hydro

Nuclear

Coal

Gas

Oil

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* Includes biofuels

Bad News: CO2 Emissions Will Continue to Go Up

Bad News is the World Gets Hotter

IPCC AR5 2013

Y’all

What is the fuss about 2 degrees?

Buck it up

Communication Problem

* Average World-wide temperature increase in Celsius, including the air over the oceans

Scientific Jargon*

Land Temp. Celsius

Texas and California

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IPCC AR5 2013

Land Warms Twice as Much as the Ocean

The chief economist for the International Energy Agency:

Current global energy consumption levels put the Earth on a trajectory to warm by 6 degrees Celsius

Scientific Jargon*

Land Temp. Celsius

Texas and California

Fahrenheit 2 4 7 3 6 11 4 8 14 5 10 18 6 12 22

“…catastrophe for all of us”

Fatih Birol: opening day of annual U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa

IPCC AR5 RCP85

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My Head

Hurts!

How Do We Even

Begin to Solve

This Problem?

Today’s Sources Greenhouse Gases

and Climate Forcers

Coal

N. Gas

Oil transport

Deforest

Livestock Other • Soot • Garbage • Cement • Refrigerants • Solvents • Chemicals • Misc.

Other

Midcentury Need 2x Energy

Coal

N. Gas

Oil transport

-Tree

Livestock

Other Solar Wind

Conservation Efficiency

Coal

N. Gas

Oil transport

Deforest

Livestock

Other

No Silver Bullet Carbon Zero Institute Launchpad Projects

Coal N. Gas Oil

Deforest

Livestock

Other

Coal

N. Gas

Oil transport

-Tree

Livestock

Other

Conservation Efficiency

Ice Batteries

Smart Fridge

Hall of Shame

HVAC 4 Zero

PM 4 Zero

Water 4 Zero

Solar Wind

Zero Meat

Zero Dairy

Gigaton Kids

Reforestation

Cookstoves

Solar Lighting

CH4 Monitor

CO2 Capture

Biosequestra.

Zero Cities

Zero Company

Zero Utility

Zero Fund

LCFS

Gigaton Gifts

Today, GigatonGifts

Coal

Deforest

Livestock

Other

-Tree

Livestock

Other

Conservation Efficiency

Solar Wind

Gigaton Kids & Gifts

Oil Transport

Natural Gas

What Can Individuals Do?

70 Suggestions

• Home & Business

The Carbon Zero Institute

• New approaches

• Act as the catalyst

Today, Holiday Gift Giving

This can have a

happy ending,

but first

Coal

Deforest

Livestock

Other

Gigaton Kids & Gifts

Oil Transport

Natural Gas

Background

Almost 3 billion people use polluting, inefficient stoves and open fires to cook their food

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Hurts Families

Fine particles lodge deep in the lungs

Kills 3 million women and children

More deaths than malaria

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Hurts the Community

Trees are cut

Soil erodes

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Soot heats the air

Lands on snow and glaciers

Hurts the Planet

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Gigaton Gifts

Empower shoppers in rich countries to make a meaningful difference in places where

– $6 plants 25 trees

– $15 is an extreme kitchen makeover

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Gigaton Kids Program Two Part Strategy

Part 2- early 2014

Downloadable curriculum (grades 3-12) • Short video-based

• Easy teacher prep

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Today

www.GigatonGifts.org

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Each Gift Comes with a

Description

• Gift, • Stocking stuffer • Include a tree in

each holiday card

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Print or Email

Some Descriptions Have an Adult and Youth Version

Omit In Youth Version

More Complete Story

When you cut and burn too many trees:

Environmental devastation and poverty and trafficking and misery

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GigatonGifts.org

1. Health benefits

2. Environmental benefits

3. Economic development

– Most of money is spent in poor communities

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GigatonGifts Long-term Vision

• Plant a billion trees

• Eliminate open and inefficient cooking fires

• Eliminate kerosene lamps

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How You Can Help

GigatonGifts

• Shop at GigatonGifts

– Individual

– Company gifts

• Volunteers

– Rotary section

Sponsors

• Add ten countries/yr.

• Carbon Zero Institute

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Elton Sherwin

elton@cz-i.org

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