EARTHDAY.ORG at COP26

Panel 1

Climate Restoration – The Only Future to Save the Planet

Reducing carbon emissions won’t restore the conditions that historically enabled humans to thrive. How can we make climate restoration possible? Which climate restoration technologies are most promising? And what are the likely costs, the possible risks, and the potential benefits?

Speakers include:

• Interviewer: Nick Nuttall – International Strategic Communications Director, EARTHDAY.ORG
• Peter Fiekowsky – Author, Entrepreneur, & Founder of global initiatives for climate restoration

Panel 2

Scaling Carbon Removal Worldwide to Achieve the Paris Agreement and Beyond:

The Power of Global Partnerships and the Oceans

This session will highlight two bold and ambitious efforts intended to massively scale safe, durable and financeable carbon removal (CDR) through both natural and technological solutions.  There will be breaking news from a cross-sectoral multi-stakeholder Task Force on Carbon Removal that has met over the last 16 months, and a deep dive into pathbreaking work to accelerate absolutely critical Ocean-Based CDR approaches.

Moderators:

Brad Ack – Executive Director, Ocean Visions

Dr. Sanjeev Khagram – Dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University

Panelists include:

• Ukur Yatani Kanacho – Minister of Finance for Kenya
• Ambassador Ertharin Cousin – Senior Advisor to the City of LA
• Kumi Naidoo – Former Global Head of Greenpeace and Amnesty International
• Margaret Leinen – Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Kilparti Ramakrishna – WHOI Senior Advisor on Ocean and Climate Policy
• Anne-Marie Laurie – Director of Climate Policy, Ocean Conservancy