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SUMMARY:Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair - Dr Shaun Fit
 zgerald FREng OBE\, Director of Research\, Centre for Climate Repair\, Dep
 artment of Engineering
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will firstly summarise exactly where we are with c
 limate change and crucially what the scientists are now considering in ter
 ms of the future. A future based purely on emissions reductions cannot kee
 p the world below 1.5C.\n\nWe discuss some of the exciting ideas for green
 house gas removal\, and importantly going beyond terrestrial-based carbon 
 dioxide removal. We will explore some of the approaches for marine carbon 
 dioxide removal as well as the development of materials to accelerate the 
 rate of oxidation of methane.\n\nWe will then spend time discussing what a
 dditional options we might have beyond emissions reduction and greenhouse 
 gas removal\; whilst these are necessary\, even the most optimistic and am
 bitious scenarios considered by the IPCC indicate that they are not suffic
 ient to keep temperatures below 1.5C. We will therefore review engineering
  concepts to limit temperature rise or interventions to protect glaciers a
 nd sea-ice\, and ostensibly buy us time to stave off the worst effects of 
 climate change whilst we get greenhouse gas levels down.\n\nWe will explor
 e the different technologies which are being researched at the University 
 of Cambridge in collaboration with multiple partner universities around th
 e world\, as well as the issues of public attitudes\, governance and ethic
 s associated with such research and potential deployment.
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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