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The Gigaton Gifts
Elton Sherwin Executive Director Carbon Zero Institute
A Project of The
Carbon Zero Institute
Background
Almost 3 billion people use polluting, inefficient stoves and open fires to cook their food
Hurts Families
Fine particles lodge deep in the lungs
Kills 3 million women and children
More deaths than malaria
Hurts the Community
Trees are cut
Soil erodes
Soot heats the air
Lands on snow and glaciers
Hurts the Planet
Kerosene Lamps Make the Situation Worse
About 1 ½ billion people use kerosene lamps
Creates more soot and carcinogens
Dangerous
I was born in a village where there were no tap water and electricity. I was using kerosene lamps to study at night. They are very convenient, but also very polluting. You have red eyes very quickly and black nose.
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin
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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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
Board of Directors Donald Kennedy, PhD • President Emeritus Stanford University
• Editor in Chief, Science, 2000-2008
• Commissioner, U.S. FDA, 1977-79
Jon Foster • CFO of LS9, Inc., (advanced biofuels and biochemicals)
• Board of Directors of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF)
• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 1995-1997
Marion O’Leary, PhD • Consultant for the Carnegie Institution for Science.
• Previously, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics California State University, Sacramento
Lisa Van Dusen • Director, Partner Engagement & External Relations, SV2
• Co-directed Leadership Palo Alto, 2012-13
• Creator & Host, First Person, interview series of SV change makers
Executive Team
Elton Sherwin, Executive Director
• 30 years of business experience
• IBM, Motorola and venture capital
• Twelve board seats, including DrillMap
• Author and authority on the business economics of climate change
Craig Wesley, Co-founder
• Board of directors of Energy Efficient & Sustainability Consulting (EES)
• President of Southwall Films (recently sold)
• A LEED® Accredited expert in energy efficiency
The Carbon Zero Institute
Real Solutions to
Protect the Climate
www.CarbonZeroInstitute.org
10,000 years of CO2
FAQs
Frequent Questions
• Who plants the trees?
• Who designs and builds the cookstoves?
• Who designs and builds the solar lights?
Answers
• Carbon Zero partners with and funds NGO’s who have a track record of success in each of these areas.
Appendix
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
Fahrenheit 2 4 7 3 6 11 4 8 14 5 10 18 6 12 22
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
