Solve Climate by 2030 – Information Webinar

YSI is delighted to support the Solve Climate by 2030. We opened a call for YSI members to organizer webinars in their own University (on April 7, 2020) discussing ambitious solutions to fight climate change.
The goal is to make them in a simultaneous fashion, then increasing the reach of this action.

We invited Prof Eban Goodstein (Director of the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College), who is leading this initiative, to explain what you should know to organize a 'Solve Climate by 2030' webinar in your own country/community?

Webinar: Solve Climate by 2030 – Information Webinar
Date: February 18 2020
Start: 11:00 EST

People who are interested in joint this Climate Action, please write to us! We have a post at the Discussion area in our Young Scholars Directory.
Here: https://ysd.ineteconomics.org/workinggroup/sustainability/topic/5e0648bf7c648105c0a2cf70

To know more about Solve Climate by 2030
See here: http://www.solveclimateby2030.org/)

*About Solve Climate by 2030: *

On the evening of Tuesday, April 7, 2020 over 100,000 university and high school students across the world will be tuning into over 54 simultaneous, university-hosted, regional webinars on an issue critical to their future: how ambitious local and regional action can put us on the way to solving climate change by 2030. Faculty in neighboring universities and high schools, and across disciplines, will be assigning these webinars as homework, and using them as a springboard for discussing climate solutions.

Why 2030?
Last year, the world’s top climate scientists told us we have a ten-year window to make rapid reductions in the carbon pollution causing global warming. If we don’t, we will severely destabilize the global climate, leading to extreme weather, droughts, floods and sea-level rise that will be increasingly hard for humans to manage.

Why regional and local action?
The very good news on climate is that a whole suite of clean energy solutions — from solar to wind to battery storage to electric vehicles — have gotten cheap and are getting cheaper. In many markets, these solutions now cost substantially less than the polluting, fossil fuel alternatives.
These powerful cost trends mean that scaling up climate solutions is increasingly about smoothing the paths for adoption, and much of this work needs to happen locally. A glaring example in the US: Florida, the “Sunshine State”, has very little solar power. Just across the border, Georgia is a top-10 solar state.

The difference?
Policy driven by civic action.

On April 7, we will hear from climate solutions experts in each of these places about ambitious but feasible actions that would have to happen soon in their cities and regions if are to get on track to solving climate by 2030. The list of universities currently hosting the webinars is below. Other regional colleges and universities and local faith, civic and business groups will host viewings of the webinars and in person discussions of how to get involved in climate solutions.

Faculty at colleges, universities and high schools, across the curriculum, can assign viewing of the webinars live or recorded as homework, and then spend the next class discussing climate solutions. This opportunity is not just for environmental studies classes. The challenges posed by solving climate change necessarily range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism and the arts. The Solve Climate By 2030 website will offer disciplinary entry points for follow-up discussion to the state-level, solutions-focused webinars.

YSI members can help by stepping up to lead a webinar sponsored by the Department or Program at their university. This is a fairly simple project. All that is needed is to invite three top people from your region to participate in a webinar on what is next for your city and region in driving climate change solutions. Such a webinar would not attract attention normally, but it will do so when it is happening simultaneously at 54 plus universities across the world. The event will put your institution at the center of the regional climate conversation in a process happening at universities across the world.

Time is short. The scientific community has made it clear: the actions we take or don't take over the next ten years will have a deep and profound impact on the lives of human beings for the next thousand generations. It is our obligation to ensure our students understand the stakes.