Fighting Climate Change: Sinking Carbon and Raising Living Standards

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🗓️ 28 November 2007

⏱️ 64 minutes

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FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE LARRY BRILLIANT, Executive Director, Google.org ANDREA GARDNER, Sustainable Solutions Manager, CH2M Hill AD MELKERT, Undersecretary of the United Nations, Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme NANCY PFUND, Managing Director, JPMorgan GREG DALTON, Vice President, Commonwealth Club-Moderator SINKING CARBON AND RAISING LIVING STANDARDS While many Californians consider buying hybrid cars and unplugging their computer, most of the world's 6 billion people covet having any kind of car and can only dream of having a laptop one day. Yet fighting global climate change will require lifestyle changes by everyone. How can that happen without slamming the world's poor, who are most vulnerable to the health and weather effects of global warming? How can California's innovation in climate policy and technologies help by decoupling carbon emissions from GDP growth? This program was recorded live on November 27, 2007 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	your story. Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of
0:36.9	Climate One. Climate One brings
0:39.0	together thought leaders from around the world to advance solutions to global warming.
0:44.0	The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit, non-partisan forum open to the public. Join us online
0:49.8	at commonwealthclub.org.
0:56.9	Good evening and welcome to today's meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California.
1:01.0	I'm Greg Dalton, Vice President of the Commonwealth Club and leader of our new Climate
1:05.6	Change Initiative.
1:07.2	Today we're discussing global climate change and economic growth and equity.
1:11.1	The United Nations Development Program just released a report on climate change here at the Commonwealth Club,
1:16.7	and we have a distinguished panel of experts to discuss how countries and people around the world can sink carbon while raising living standards,
1:25.1	particularly among the world's poorest citizens.
1:28.1	Our panel includes Dr. Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google.org.
1:32.5	During his multifaceted career, Dr. Brilliant has been a technology entrepreneur and CEO,
1:38.4	and helped lead a World Health Organization program to eradicate smallpox.
1:44.5	Ad Melkert is Undersec under Secretary General of the United Nations.
1:48.0	He is also associate administrator of the United Nations Development Program.
1:52.4	Prior to joining the UN, Mr. Melkert was on the board of the World Bank, where he was an executive
1:57.3	director, and he had a career in the Dutch Labor Party, serving as a member
2:01.6	of Parliament and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment. Nancy Fund is a managing director
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