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climate science infrastructure; the clean energy transition; technologies for deep decarbonization; the social cost of carbon; and climate impacts on the intersection of health, equity, and security." By convening experts and leaders from across sectors and disciplines, GUIRR provided a forum for dialogue on climate change priorities for consideration by leaders across the research enterprise. This document summarizes the presentations and discussions at the five workshops in three sections.
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Climate Science and Research Infrastructure," held June 14, 2021. Another recommendation to the USGCRP from the National Academies committee urges the prioritization of research in climate mitigation, adaptation, and synergies and tradeoffs among policies and practices.
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We need a Climate Change Act like the Clean Water or Clean Air Act." CLIMATE IMPACTS ON HEALTH, EQUITY, AND HUMAN SECURITY "Addressing the human impacts of climate change calls for a focus on environmental and climate justice agendas centered on human health and well-being," said GUIRR co-chair Leshin. In introducing the topic, she stated, "Recent studies are connecting the impacts of climate change to changes in air quality, water-related illness, and food safety and security, nutrition and distribution.
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McCarthy said President Biden created the Office of Climate Policy in recognition of the need for a whole-of-government approach to improving clean energy options and making communities healthier. Within the office, thirty-six agencies come together to talk about climate change, and how it interacts across all programs and investments.
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"What we are missing is how do we operationalize and how do we hold people accountable," she said. A participant noted new modeling tools, such as INMAP from the University of Chicago, as a useful metric, and suggested an inventory of policies that address health and equity across federal agencies.6 Another participant suggested the need to reframe discovery research with climate equity engineering.
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"Addressing equity is a prerequisite to achieving healthy and climateresilient communities," Bullard said. He noted that President Biden's Justice40 is an excellent step, which builds on decades of relevant research and partnerships that have been underway in the environmental and climate justice movements for years.12 CARBON MITIGATION, SEQUESTRATION, AND MARKETS With large reductions in carbon emissions necessary to reach national and global climate change goals, three sessions of the workshop series focused on carbon-related issues related to the clean energy transition, carbon sequestration through negative emissions technologies, and the role of carbon regulation, markets, and pricing in reducing emissions at regional and national levels.
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usage is at a tipping point, and urged continued policy incentives including tax credits, and attention to infrastructure, such as the location of charging stations. More broadly, he suggested, EVs illustrate that "climate policy is correctly viewed as not a set of small niche policies for each individual sector, but as an economic transformational strategy." According to Peter Green (National Renewable Energy Laboratory [NREL]
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climate goals will be difficult to achieve, but they also represent an opportunity if done with equity and environmental justice in mind. Focusing his presentation on the United States, he said the good news about the clean energy transition includes energy breakthroughs, the fact that renewable energy is cheaper at scale than fossil fuel energy, and the falling costs of battery electric vehicles.
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. To explain what she acknowledged is a confusing topic, she referred participants to many resources, including the open-access journal Negative Emissions Technologies; an open-access book, Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer;20 a 2019 National Academies report, Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration, that laid out a research agenda on the topic;21 a report on California's negative emissions goals;22 and a textbook she published that brings together disparate sources of knowledge.23 "The concept of net-zero recognizes that emissions are put in the atmosphere every year," she explained.
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is comprised of plant scientists dedicated to fighting climate change.26 The changing climate can make food production harder, but plants are the most efficient machines to capture CO2, as they have done for hundreds of millions of years. Busch argued, it is worth spending time and resources on harnessing plants for carbon sequestration because plants are a major driver of the natural carbon cycle.
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It has also been used to set the level of a proposed federal carbon tax in legislation, by states, and by Canada and Mexico. Some businesses and other nongovernmental entities look at SCC estimates to value emissions reductions in their policies and planning processes.
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Congress considered but failed to enact federal legislation establishing a cap-and-trade mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, carbon markets were considered dead in the United States. But despite lack of federal action, there are more than 30 successful environmental markets in the U.S.
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2021. Partnerships and CrossSector Collaboration Priorities to Support Climate Research and Policy: Proceedings of a Workshop Series -- in Brief.
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