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From: To: j [email protected]> Subject: New Event - Nature: Our Best Climate Technology? Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:58:35 +0000 2inieingence Thrunvaru 1.1.) a menu view in Drowse( er. Nature: Our Best Climate Technology? Thursday 9th Feb, 7pm, Savoy Place Speakers It was historic. The 2015 Paris climate agreement saw every Justin Adams member country of the UN pledge to cut its carbon emissions to Global Managing Director for Lands at The zero by the second half of this century and keep global warming at Nature Conservancy, one of the world's biggest well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. environmental and conservation organisations, where he specialises in sustainable agriculture, There's just one problem. To reach this goal the world would need forests and smart infrastructure. He was to shut down all of its coal-fired power stations by 2025 and ditch formerly a senior executive at BP, and senior the combustion engine entirely by 2030. To reach its own targets. adviser to the World Bank. the UK will need to decarbonise the vast majority of its electricity supply within a mere 15 years. Eliminating fossil fuels this way is Tony Juniper going to be extremely challenging. An extra lever is needed to Sustainability adviser and former executive reach the Paris climate targets. But from where? director of Friends of the Earth. He is the author of What Has Nature Ever Done For Us: How The answer, many voices are now suggesting, is to use nature Money Really Does Grow on Trees and What itself as a climate technology. Artificial carbon-capture Nature Does For Britain, and is co-author with technologies are still in the lab, and will be expensive and difficult HRH Prince of Wales of Harmony: A New Way to scale up quickly enough. But, say experts, we already possess of Looking at Our World. a ready-made, affordable system of carbon sequestration with billions of years of behind it - soil, peatlands, wetlands and Remaining speakers to be announced grasslands. Better managed, restored and protected, these ecosystems could provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed by 2030 to keep to the 2°C limit. Chair On February 9th in partnership with The Kemal Ahmed Nature Conservancy, will bring together some of the leaders in Economics editor at the BBC. He was formerly this field to examine how nature itself can be harnessed to cut our the BBC's business editor and political editor at carbon emissions. The Observer, and Director of Communications at the Equality and Human Rights Commission Take forests. Conventional wisdom says that we shouldn't be from 2007 to 2009. cutting down trees. On the contrary, say some experts, with the right safeguards in place harvesting trees could be at the core of a new low-carbon bio-economy. Timber buildings, for example, can act as long-lasting carbon stores, at the same time as reducing the need for concrete and steel, which produce more than 5% of atmospheric carbon emissions. EFTA00710474 It's not only wood. Other solutions - such as growing more crops while using less land, or restoring mangroves and wetlands - present opportunities for carbon storage at scale. Unleashing nature's own 'carbon-capture' technology could be as significant as stopping burning oil. But how feasible are these solutions on a global scale? Some argue that such measures are not practical, and that they'll disrupt the livelihoods of farmers, especially in emerging economies, where agriculture and forestry are still the major source of economic progress. Is nature the great, abundant technology that we have failed to tap? Or would it limit economic progress for those dependent on agriculture and forestry? How to reconcile these risks with the opportunity for the climate? Join us on February 9th hear our panel of experts, and make up your own mind. ,race000K witter Ail:wirer T OU I Imre sounacioucr ! di Is proudly supported by its media partner VANITY FAIR Unsubscribe Intelligence' Ltd , Newcombe House, 45 Notting Hill Gate, London WIT 3LQ Copyright © Intelligence' Ltd. All rights reserved. EFTA00710475