Samantha Gross, the director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at the Brookings Institution, argues that the key to reducing emissions is to do the hard work of reducing oil demand rather than focusing on ending U.S. oil drilling.
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Annual Freedman Lecture will examine the transition from a carbon-based economy
April 7, 2021
AMHERST, Mass. – Three experts will present different perspectives on how the United States and the world can transition from a carbon-based economy to one that is greenhouse gas emissions neutral when the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences presents “Climate Crisis: Transitioning Away from a Carbon-Based Economy,” the 2021 Freedman Lecture, April 22 at 12:30 p.m.
Panelists for the online event include:
Jacopo Buongiorno, director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES) and director of science and technology for the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. A professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, Buongiorno will discuss new advances made in nuclear energy production as an alternative to carbon-based energy sources in every sector of the economy.