BENDING THE CURVE

Speech given at the UN Foundation President Janet Napolitano Statement issued during the Governor of California dinner in New York City in honor University of California announcement of the Carbon September 25, 2015 of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy 2013 Neutrality Initiative of the of Sciences for its role in shaping University of California the Vatican’s position on climate change as espoused. [...] In this report, we propose a set of strategies for combating climate change and growing the economy in California, the nation and the world, while building present-day and intergenerational wealth, and improving the well-being of people and the planet. [...] As we make the changes necessary to achieve carbon neutrality at the University of California, employing solutions that can be scaled up to developing energy and climate solutions for the world, hundreds of thousands of faculty, students and staff across our 10 campuses and three affiliated national laboratories will be learning and sharing with the world how we can bend the curve of greenhouse ga. [...] It is the second-to-least has a hospital and medical school, efficiency programs for buildings and utilities, industrial facilities and fuel carbon-intense economy in the world shape the specific challenges of appliances, and transit and land use distributors, covering 85 percent of next to France, which relies heavily the campuses, each of which is a programs to reduce vehicle miles California’s. [...] Nonlinear feedbacks Feedbacks between warming, Arctic sea ice and absorption of Feedbacks between warming, snowpack, Feedbacks between warming are kicking in and the sun’s heat drought and fires and atmospheric moisture leading to climate Observations from 1979 to 2012 reveal that warming in the Arctic has been The California example: California has kept up with the average warming of the With eve.