Restoring the Carbon Balance Session 3: Policies and Financing

Originally aired May 11, 2017

The third and final session in the SSF/ASU Restoring the Carbon Balance series examines the policies, regulatory frameworks, and financing mechanisms needed to accelerate investment in carbon removal, storage, and utilization technologies. Panelists explore the incentive structures, political pathways, and business case for scaling Negative Emissions Technologies from demonstration to commercial deployment.

Speakers

Andy Revkin

Senior Climate Reporter, ProPublica; Former Science Journalist, The New York Times

Andy Revkin is a senior reporter for climate and related issues at ProPublica, which he joined in December 2016 after 21 years writing for The New York Times. He began covering climate change in the 1980s and has won most of the top awards in science journalism, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship, Columbia University’s John Chancellor Award for sustained journalistic excellence, and an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award.

Klaus Lackner

Director, Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, Arizona State University

Klaus Lackner is the Director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University and a pioneer in direct air capture research. In this session, he paints a picture of how the global landscape could look if carbon removal technologies are developed to scale — and what the policy environment needed to enable that future would require.

Noah Deich

Director, Center for Carbon Removal

Noah Deich is Director of the Center for Carbon Removal, where he examines regulatory and policy barriers and opportunities to provide incentives for investment in carbon management technologies. His work focuses on building the political and institutional conditions needed to bring carbon removal from the margins of climate policy to the center of national and international climate strategies.

Fatima Ahmad

Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Fatima Ahmad works at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, where she focuses on financing opportunities and policy development for emerging energy technologies — including carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS). Her work helps bridge the gap between technology readiness and the investment and regulatory frameworks needed to bring low-carbon solutions to commercial scale.

Richard Mattison

CEO, Trucost

Richard Mattison is the CEO of Trucost, a leading provider of environmental data and risk analysis for the investment and business community. An expert in sustainable finance, he advises on how business and the investment community can integrate climate change and natural capital analysis into decision-making — including the valuation of carbon removal and the risks posed by unpriced environmental externalities.