Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 6PM
Location: New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street
RSVP: NYAS website
Panelists: Katherine Kennedy, Natural Resources Defense Council; and Franz Litz, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Moderator: Stephen A. Hammer, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy at Columbia University
On November 15, 2005, a panel sponsored by the Academy's Environmental Sciences Section and the Sallan Foundation reported on and explored a matter that in recent years has graduated from being interesting to being serious to being urgent: how New York State can reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) that contribute to climate change.
The lion's share of those emissions is the CO2 produced when fossil fuels are burned, and on this point mounting concerns about climate change converge with mounting concerns about global energy dependence on fossil fuels. Quite apart from environmental and health concerns — fossil fuel emissions other than CO2 cause harm, too — a shift from carbon-based fuels to more diversified sources of energy would ensure greater reliability of supply and dampen volatile price swings.
The Academy preBriefing for the 15 November panel with the full program, speakers' abstracts, bios and bibliographies, plus conference goals and background information is currently available on the New York Academy of Sciences web site at the following url: http://www.nyas.org/sallan.
Reception to follow.