Join us for a discussion about the future of fossil fuels in a net-zero United States.
As the United States decarbonizes its economy and strives for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, production and consumption of fossil fuels will need to decline substantially. Reducing fossil fuel usage will bring significant benefits, like lower emissions and better ambient air quality, but poses challenges for communities that are economically dependent on extraction and production. Marcius Extavour (TIME CO2) will moderate a conversation with Julia Haggerty (Montana State University) and Daniel Raimi (Resources for the Future) about the future of fossil fuels and how to address the technical and societal challenges associated with their changing role. The conversation will include discussion of environmental remediation, maintaining the safety and reliability of existing fossil fuel infrastructure, and socioeconomic impacts in fossil fuel dependent communities. The conversation will draw from the new National Academies report: Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy, and Societal Dimensions, including the chapter on The Future of Fossil Fuels.
The webinar will be webcast on the Climate Conversations: Fossil Fuels webpage on Thursday, November 16 from 3:00-4:15 pm ET. Closed captioning will be provided. The conversation will include questions from the audience and will be recorded and available to view on the page after the event.
Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action is a monthly webinar series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that aims to convene high-level, cross-cutting, nonpartisan conversations about issues relevant to policy action on climate change.
Participant Bios
Marcius Extavour is the Chief Climate Solutions Officer at TIMECO2. His career combines science, innovation, business, capital, and storytelling to build and deploy climate and energy solutions. He has previously served as Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President for Climate and Energy at XPRIZE Foundation and held roles at the University of Toronto, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, Ontario Power Generation, and Nortel Networks, and holds a Ph.D. in quantum physics. He was named 2019 VERGE Vanguard Fellow, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, and member of the National Academies Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, and his work has been featured on CNBC, Business News Network, PBS NOVA, the Washington Post, The Economist, and The Atlantic.
Julia Haggerty is Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University, where she leads the Resources & Communities Research Group in studying the ways rural communities respond to shifting economic and policy trajectories, especially as they involve natural resources. Haggerty has expertise in diverse rural geographies including those shaped by energy development, extractive industries, ranching and agriculture, and amenity development and conservation. Partnerships and collaboration with diverse stakeholders are central to her approach. She was a committee member for the recently published National Academies report: Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy, and Societal Dimensions.
Daniel Raimi is Director of the Equity in the Energy Transition Initiative at Resources for the Future and a lecturer at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on tools to enable an equitable energy transition. In 2017, he published The Fracking Debate (Columbia University Press), a book that combines stories from his travels to dozens of oil- and gas-producing regions with a detailed examination of key policy issues.
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