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SUMMARY:Information Session: Innovation Seed Grants- Call for Proposals
DESCRIPTION:Join our online info session to learn how to apply for Penn’s Climate Innovation Seed Grants!\n\n\nInformation Session: Penn Climate Innovation Seed Grants- Call for Proposals\nPenn Climate’s new Climate Solutions Hub Innovation Seed Grants program invites you to attend and information session on: \nMay 5 between 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. \nPenn Climate leadership and staff will introduce the funding program and explain its goals\, eligibility requirements\, and procedures for proposal submission. A moderated Q&A session will follow the presentation. \nThe Climate Solutions Hub Innovation Seed Grants program funds multidisciplinary\, research-focused projects to create climate solutions by leveraging Penn’s existing strengths. Please review the Innovation Seed Grants program solicitation for more information. Email Xime Trujillo at xime@upenn.edu with any questions. \nPenn Climate invites you to share the Zoom link with colleagues you think may be interested in attending the information session.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/information-session-innovation-seed-grants-call-for-proposals/
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SUMMARY:Building a Clean\, Equitable Economy: Where Do We Go from Here?
DESCRIPTION:Join Heather Boushey to learn about how the United States can embrace the clean energy transition without leaving communities behind.\n\n\nPenn Climate\, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, and the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability\, and the Media\, welcome Heather Boushey\, Professor of Practice at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, for a conversation during Earth Week. \nOne of our nation’s most pressing economic challenges is embracing decarbonization as a strategic opportunity for shared growth and security. There is a need to rapidly transition from a carbon-intensive economy\, to adapt to the real-time physical damages incurred from a changing climate\, to bolster American competitiveness through technological innovation\, and to reverse decades of rising economic inequalities. Too often\, policymakers seeking policies that deliver both economic and climate benefits find themselves constrained by frameworks that assume decarbonization is a simple tradeoff between higher costs and lower emissions. \n \nFor the United States to maintain its role as an economic powerhouse\, it cannot be economically “blind” to the financial hazards of climate change and the economic upsides of decarbonization. The fundamental gaps in technical knowledge\, tools\, and communities of economic practice leave economic policymakers with outdated frameworks and capacities that fail to account for the requisite scale and speed of the energy transition\, which\, in turn\, results in people and places being left behind. \n \nIn this seminar\, Dr. Heather Boushey\, Professor of Practice at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, will debunk old dogma on the economics of climate change and map out the necessary principles to deliver on our future\, which sets the table for a forward-looking plan where decarbonization delivers shared growth for people and places and bolsters national security.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/building-a-clean-equitable-economy-where-do-we-go-from-here-2/
LOCATION:Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, 220 South 34th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Penn Climate Seminar: Andrew Hoffman
DESCRIPTION:Join Penn Climate for a discussion by Andrew Hoffman titled “Climate Change Through the Lens of Veterinarians.”\n\n\nPenn Climate welcomes Andrew Hoffman\, Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of Veterinary Medicine at Penn Vet\, for a seminar titled “Climate Change Through the Lens of Veterinarians.” \nVeterinary medicine aims to protect and preserve animal health\, biodiversity\, and agriculture-food systems\, all areas heavily impacted by climate change. We will discuss the connections between climate change and veterinary medicine while highlighting opportunities to engage across schools through a One Health framework. Finally\, we will discuss Penn Climate Insights\, a new knowledge-sharing platform originating from Penn Vet that aims to bolster climate education and interdisciplinary collaborations across Penn.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/penn-climate-seminar-andrew-hoffman/
LOCATION:Steinberg-Dietrich 351\, 3620 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Penn Climate Seminar: Shelley Welton
DESCRIPTION:Join Penn Climate for a discussion by Shelley Welton titled “New Experiments in Public Power.”\n\n\nPenn Climate welcomes Shelley Welton\, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, for a seminar titled “New Experiments in Public Power.” \nIn leading jurisdictions\, the “easy” part of the clean energy transition has been achieved. What remains to be accomplished—constructing energy systems that emit no carbon\, rather than just substantially less carbon—will be harder and more expensive. In recognition of these challenges\, both New York State and the United Kingdom recently passed laws creating state-owned clean energy companies: New York by giving a new mission to its “New York Power Authority\,” and the UK by creating “Great British Energy.” \nProponents of these new state-owned clean energy entities hope that they might deliver the energy transition more affordably\, fairly\, and quickly than privately owned counterparts. Critics suggest that they are a distraction from solutions capable of mobilizing and deploying private finance at necessary scales. This presentation will discuss and assess these new public power entities\, considering their theory\, politics\, and promise alongside their early implementation challenges and limits.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/penn-climate-seminar-shelley-welton/
LOCATION:Steinberg-Dietrich 351\, 3620 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Building a Clean\, Equitable Economy: Where Do We Go from Here?
DESCRIPTION:Join Heather Boushey to learn about how the United States can embrace the clean energy transition without leaving communities behind.\n\n\nPenn Climate\, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, and the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability\, and the Media\, welcome Heather Boushey\, Professor of Practice at the Kleinman Center and former Chief Economist to President Biden’s Investing in America Cabinet\, for a conversation during Energy Week. \nOne of our nation’s most pressing economic challenges is embracing decarbonization as a strategic opportunity for shared growth and security. There is a need to rapidly transition from a carbon-intensive economy\, to adapt to the real-time physical damages incurred from a changing climate\, to bolster American competitiveness through technological innovation\, and to reverse decades of rising economic inequalities. Too often\, policymakers seeking policies that deliver both economic and climate benefits find themselves constrained by frameworks that assume decarbonization is a simple tradeoff between higher costs and lower emissions. \n \nFor the United States to maintain its role as an economic powerhouse\, it cannot be economically “blind” to the financial hazards of climate change and the economic upsides of decarbonization. The fundamental gaps in technical knowledge\, tools\, and communities of economic practice leave economic policymakers with outdated frameworks and capacities that fail to account for the requisite scale and speed of the energy transition\, which\, in turn\, results in people and places being left behind. \n \nIn this Penn Energy Week seminar\, Dr. Heather Boushey\, Professor of Practice at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, will debunk old dogma on the economics of climate change and map out the necessary principles to deliver on our future\, which sets the table for a forward-looking plan where decarbonization delivers shared growth for people and places and bolsters national security.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/building-a-clean-equitable-economy-where-do-we-go-from-here/
LOCATION:Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, 220 South 34th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Penn Climate Seminar: Karen Goldberg
DESCRIPTION:Join Penn Climate for a discussion by Karen Golberg titled “Developing Alternatives to Oil as Feedstocks for our Chemicals and Liquid Fuels”\n\n\nPenn Climate welcomes Karen Goldberg\, Vagelos Professor in Energy Research and Chemistry\, and the inaugural Director of the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology\, for a seminar titled “Developing Alternatives to Oil as Feedstocks for our Chemicals and Liquid Fuels.” \nIt is widely accepted that decarbonization of our energy systems will have the largest impact on mitigation of climate change. But\, with a move away from oil as a primary energy source\, we will need to develop other sustainable sources for our liquid fuels\, and we will also need to reinvent our chemical industry and economy. Gasoline and other liquid fuels are the major products that are made from oil\, but oil is also the source of most of the chemicals that are used to make all the consumer goods that we have come to rely on. Our medicines\, body-care products\, detergents\, paints\, plastics\, fibers\, fabrics\, and essentially everything we use everyday are currently derived from petroleum. Petroleum has provided the carbon-based building blocks used to make all these consumer goods\, all of which are available in sufficient supply and at low cost due to the economy of scale of the enormous oil refining industry. Fundamentally new pathways\, from new sources\, to these chemicals and liquid fuels that we depend on must be developed to successfully transition to a sustainable future. In this presentation\, Karen Goldberg will describe how we arrived at our current energy landscape\, projections on where we are going\, and present some of the exciting strategies that scientists are pursuing to allow us to use natural gas\, carbon dioxide and even waste plastic to prepare our chemicals and fuels in the future.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/penn-climate-seminar-karen-goldberg/
LOCATION:Steinberg-Dietrich 351\, 3620 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Penn Climate Seminar: Sarah E. Light & Amanda Shanor
DESCRIPTION:Join Penn Climate for a discussion on Environmental Law and the First Amendment between Wharton Professors Sarah E. Light and Amanda Shanor\n\n\nEnvironmental law and policy intersects with the First Amendment in many ways\, ranging from claims that laws compelling firms to disclose their emissions or climate-related risks constitute compelled speech in violation of the First Amendment\, to concerns that recent terminations of federal Department of Energy grants in some states but not others are improperly retaliatory in violation of the First Amendment. Penn Climate is excited to welcome Wharton Professors Sarah E. Light and Amanda Shanor\, who will engage in a lively discussion on these topics. \n \nSarah E. Light is the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professor\, and Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School\, University of Pennsylvania\, where her research lies at the intersection of environmental law and corporate sustainability. Light serves as co-Faculty Director of the Wharton Climate Center. Professor Light has taught courses related to Environmental Management\, Law\, and Policy as well as Negotiation during her time at Wharton. Professor Light has received numerous teaching awards for MBA and undergraduate teaching. \nPrior to joining the Wharton faculty\, Professor Light served for ten years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York\, including four years as Chief of the Environmental Protection Unit. Professor Light earned her J.D. from Yale Law School\, an M.Phil in Politics from Oxford University\, where she was a Rhodes Scholar\, and an A.B. from Harvard College. \n \nAmanda Shanor is an Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania\, where she teaches and writes about constitutional law\, particularly freedom of speech. Her research explores the evolving meaning of the First Amendment\, democratic theory\, illiberalism\, equality\, and the relationship between constitutional law and economic life. Her scholarship has appeared in leading law reviews\, and she contributes regularly to SCOTUSBlog. At Penn\, she teaches Constitutional Law and continues to engage in active legal practice through litigation\, amicus briefs\, and advising on key constitutional cases such as 303 Creative v. Elenis and Bostock v. Clayton County. \nBefore joining Penn\, Shanor worked as a lawyer in the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Legal Department\, contributing to the organization’s Supreme Court litigation and national strategy\, including Masterpiece Cakeshop. She also served as a fellow at Georgetown University Law Center’s Center on National Security & the Law\, litigating constitutional and national security cases such as Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder. A graduate of Yale College\, Yale Law School\, and Yale University (PhD in Law)\, Shanor clerked for Judges Cornelia T.L. Pillard and Judith W. Rogers on the D.C. Circuit and Judge Robert W. Sweet in the Southern District of New York.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/penn-climate-seminar-sarah-e-light-amanda-shanor/
LOCATION:Steinberg-Dietrich Hall\, Room 350\, 3620 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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