To the Point
Climate Change and Big Money for New Technology
California leads the nation in reducing greenhouse emissions, but Governor Jerry Brown concedes that’s just the beginning. Will his global conference on climate change make any difference?
By Warren Olney • • 49m Listen“Carbon recapture,” “sequestration,” and “recycling” are now among strategies investors are exploring to control carbon emissions. They could be sucked from the air to end up as plastics or be buried under the ground. As Gov. Jerry Brown hosts yet another conference to talk about climate change, we’ll hear about the need for trillions of dollars in private financing. But will such projects divert efforts from the ultimate goal of eliminating greenhouse gases?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Jeffrey Ball
Scholar-in-residence Stanford. Writer on energy & environment in The Atlantic, FortuneMagazine, etc.
Gaurav Sant
Assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA.
Glen Peters
Senior researcher at the Center for International Climate Research/CICERO in Oslo, Norway.