Restoring the Carbon Balance – Webinar 4: Policies and Financing

Overview

Building on decades of work across the globe by the public and private sectors, has a shared global climate ethos — a sense of collective commitment and common purpose — reached a tipping point?

• Are the Paris Agreement and the growing number of cities adopting carbon-based energy goals evidence of that? How durable are these actions?
• Is a sense of common purpose sustainable without US federal government coordination and leadership? What roles do sub-national and municipal governments play?
• How can business, security, religious, and civil society actors continue and even accelerate efforts to reduce emissions? Can they work together to avoid the worst climate impacts?
• Is the global commitment to climate solutions shallow or deep?
• How can moral, scientific and political imperatives find common ground?
• Does the global climate ethos include extracting, storing and reusing carbon already in the atmosphere?
• Where do opportunities for collaborative innovation exist?

Join Arizona State University and global governance, business, science, policy and faith leaders in a 90 minute webinar to explore the depth and breadth of a global climate ethos and the direction of plausible, innovative climate action emerging across sectors and among global societies.

This webinar will convene leaders in a public conversation that touches on these critical questions and that can inspire local conversations and ideas to advance cross-sectoral collaborations.

We’ll also share resources to support a climate ethos dialogue in your community.