Launching a Transformational Decade of Climate Action: A Distinguished Lecture with Sally Benson
на канале: Carnegie Mellon University's Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
Imagine a future where most of our electricity comes from carbon-free sources, where electric vehicles are the car of choice, where clean hydrogen is fueling long-haul trucking, and entirely new industries are growing new and good jobs here in America, and our energy and related supply chains are more secure than ever, and the air and water is getting cleaner everywhere, and for everyone, especially for people who have borne a disproportionate share of historic pollution burdens. With the historic legislation and executive actions taken over the past 1 ½ years, we don’t just have to imagine that anymore. In this lecture, Dr. Sally Benson will discuss the provisions and scale of these actions that will launch a transformational decade of climate action that will make this future a reality.
Moderated by Jay Whitacre and Valerie Karplus from the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.
An internationally-recognized energy expert, Dr. Sally Benson currently serves as Deputy Director for Energy & Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition at OSTP. Trained as an earth scientist and engineer, she has researched a wide variety of topics related to energy and the environment. For the past 25 years, she has focused on deep decarbonization of the global energy system. She comes to OSTP from Stanford University where she is the Precourt Family Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. During her time at Stanford, she was also the Director of the Global Climate and Energy Project, a research program focused on discovering and developing new technologies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the energy system.
Prior to joining Stanford University, she was at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she held many positions, including Earth Sciences Division Director, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences, and Deputy Director for Operations. She has been a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and a member of several National Academies of Sciences studies related to energy and the environment, most recently the study on Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration.