AI, Energy and Climate: Julio Friedmann on AI, Climate Change and Carbon Capture

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

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4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Julio Friedmann -- the "Carbon Wrangler" -- is Chief Scientist at Carbon Direct and one of the world's leading experts on carbon capture and decarbonization more broadly. Host David Sandalow talks with Friedmann about ways AI can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and carbon capture's role in the fight against climate change. AI, Energy and Climate is a special series from the DSR Network sponsored by NEDO and hosted by David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. AI for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap -- https://www.icef.go.jp/roadmap and transitiondigital.org/ai-climate-roadmap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.4	slash buy. Thank you and enjoy the show. Welcome to the AI Energy and Climate Podcast, a special series from the DSR Network hosted
1:00.0	by David Sandelow, inaugural fellow at Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy.
1:06.0	Join us as we talk with leading experts to explore the intersection between these critical issues that will impact the future of each and every one of us.
1:17.6	This podcast is sponsored in part by Nido, the new energy and industrial technology development organization, a national research and development
1:29.2	agency in Japan. Julio Friedman, welcome to the AI Energy and Climate Podcast.
1:36.2	A pleasure to be here, David. Congratulations on this new gig. Well, you've had quite a career,
1:42.6	Julio. You've been a scientist at Lawrence Zimmermore
1:45.1	National Lab. You've been the top official at the U.S. Department of Energy, a scholar at Columbia
1:50.0	University. Now you're the chief scientist at Carbon Direct. What is Carbon Direct? What do you do there?
1:57.7	So, Carbon Direct's a company that helps enable substantial, durable greenhouse gas reductions and removals using science.
2:09.6	That's the mission.
2:11.1	And we take our very large and broad and accomplished science team and we work with companies or governments or philanthropies or whoever to figure out how they can
2:20.7	actually deliver reductions to their own footprint, purchase removals to complement them,
2:26.5	find clean building materials or fuels, whatever it is they need.
2:31.1	And I entered into this company because I believe that this is the moment where actually we
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