Friday, November 8th, 2024 | 10:30 am – 11:50 am
Steve Davis, Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University Doerr School of Sustainability
Location: 1605 Tilia Street, Suite 100, Davis, CA
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There is broad consensus that electrification of end uses and renewable electricity can drastically and cost-effectively reduce GHG emissions from the energy system. But important questions remain about end uses that are particularly challenging to electrify as well as the broader (and typically not modeled) implications of net-zero emissions energy systems. I’ll present some recent work by my group on different net-zero pathways with regard to aviation, geopolitical risks, and air pollution impacts.
Steve Davis is a Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford University, where he researches the sources and socio-economic drivers of GHG emissions, impacts of global environmental change on human systems, and sustainable solutions. He is also chair of the external science advisory board of Watershed, a carbon accounting start-up, and currently serves on the Technical Council of the Science Based Targets Initiative.
