The Need for Public-Private Collaboration to drive Climate Solutions

10/20/2015

On October 20-21, 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry convened the Secretary’s Climate and Clean Energy Investment Forum focusing on investments targeting clean energy, energy efficiency, and climate change in the developing world.

Jeremy Grantham participated with Secretary Kerry in the session "Fireside Chat: The Need for Public-Private Collaboration to drive Climate Solutions" (watch an excerpt below).

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Rosemary Jones

6/13/2016 07:13:04 pm

Please promote a UN Climate Response Program to restore reflectivity and shading wherever possible, properly paying the poorest people to do much of the work

Loss of reflectivity accounts for about half annual warming and can be mitigated separately.

Please email for details of this strategy and climate technologies.

Andy Kadir-Buxton link

1/20/2019 09:21:53 am

The world's first self-funding near-zero CO2 plan can be seen at: http://www.kadir-buxton.com/near-zero-co2-plan

Paul Ehrlich

3/11/2020 08:40:58 am

"Running Out Of Resources"
by Jeremy Grantham

Getting Used to Lower Growth and Higher Prices

... we are simply running out of everything at a dangerous rate. We apparently have trouble processing numeric issues of this kind, and this missing faculty will cause considerable grief. We do not understand the implications of exponential or compound growth rates: the main implication being that they are impossible to sustain.

No better example of resource limitation in the face of both denial and strong efforts can be found than U.S. oil production. As is well known, we have been on the steep down slope of production since 1974 despite our best attempts to “Drill, baby, drill!” The largest oil discovery in the Gulf in the last 20 years will keep our engines running for a mere 41 days. Nothing we do can reverse the decline, and drilling our reserves faster has been described as “oil independence through more rapid exhaustion of our reserves!” Coal reserves of the highest quality – anthracite – are basically mined out everywhere, and the second choice – bituminous coal – has probably also passed its peak. All attempts to maintain the growth of total hydrocarbon output must now depend on sub-bituminous coal, lignite (which is a little bit better than burning rock, but not much), and tar sands, which are themselves increasingly energy- and water-intensive to exploit.

Msambwe Madiwa link

10/25/2020 07:23:50 am

Dear team at Grantham Foundation

Greetings from Usambara Mountains Tanzania

I hope you are staying safe and well during this unprecedented time for our industry - and our world. The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted our lives, and our business, in ways we simply never could have imagined.

Friends of Usambara Society (FoU) is an exceptionally prolific grassroots non-profit organization based in Lushoto that uses sustainable tourism to preserve culture and conserve nature of Usambara mountains region. FoU is widely known for its popular Cultural Tourism Program, which apparently attracts hundreds of tourists annually and serves as an appendage for generating resources needed for sustaining FoU’s core organizational activities/ community based projects i.e. biodiversity conservation, livelihoods development projects as well as direct contribution to specific village development priorities (within the catchment area) in the form of village development fund (VDF) where by 20 percent of the business revenue are used to support community relating projects.

Programmatically, FoU is directly involved in community-based environmental awareness creation and education campaign, large-scale tree planting and agroforestry, protection and regeneration of forests, as well as combating desertification and promotion of sustainable forestry in an effort to slow global climate change. Using its multi-dimensional model, FoU’s sustainable approach to community forestry simultaneously addresses poverty as well as environmental problems

For the past 5 years, FoU has been working with 4HMT and other stake holders on a large-scale tree planting project in the West Usambara Mountains of northern Tanzania. So far we've planted about 22 million trees since 2008 to date and FOU hopes to plant 7.5 million this year. The beauty of this project is that FOU can plant trees grown from seed at US$0.20/tree. FoU currently have about 15 million trees growing in their tree nurseries, many of them ready to plant in the Mountains. Kindly find this documentation produced by FoU Partners at this link who visited us recently. Our goal at this time is to form new or renew old partnerships to get those trees in the ground. Given our large inventory of trees, and our desire to get those trees in the ground to help slow global climate change, I wonder if Grantham Foundation and its clients are ready to start tree planting relationship. Species we are planting includes native which is good for restoring African rain Forest, exotic for business oriented while other species are good for Agroforestry, kindly find the link showing the status of FoU Tree Nurseries 2020;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxdvan1VyaM

There are a variety of reasons why we are planting trees here. As Friends of Usambara 4-H youth development project, we have school tree nurseries where the kids learn-by-doing about trees and horticulture as they do their part in the climate crisis. The native trees planted in Forest Reserves help to preserve biodiversity in the Eastern Arc Mountains biodiversity hot spot. Trees grown in woodlots for domestic uses keep people out of the Forest Reserves. Trees given to subsistence farmers to plant in agroforestry help them to produce a surplus that can improve family nutrition, or be sold at market to help them to graduate from extreme poverty. The trees provide erosion control, which is so important because of the massive deforestation. There are many other good reasons to plant trees down here.

I would be very interested to speak with you about this project of planting trees as this has been great timing as it is raining down here and best period for tree planting. Twenty cents per tree is very cost-effective, which is one reason why we've been able to do a lot in this area. We want to expand the project to other Eastern Arc ranges. Perhaps we can work on that together.

Please let me know some good times for you to speak if interested as I am looking forward to lean more from you.

Thanks,

Ms. Msambwe Yassin Madiwa

FoU Marketing Manager

Friends of Usambara Facebook

FoU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usambaracte/

Erinn link

12/22/2020 11:21:04 am

Great read thank you.

The Need for Public-Private Collaboration to drive Climate Solutions

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