Fighting Climate Change: Sinking Carbon and Raising Living Standards
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE\n\nLARRY BRILLIANT, Executive Director, Google.org\nANDREA GARDNER, Sustainable Solutions Manager, CH2M Hill\nAD MELKERT, Undersecretary of the United Nations, Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme\nNANCY PFUND, Managing Director, JPMorgan\nGREG DALTON, Vice President, Commonwealth Club-Moderator\n\nSINKING CARBON AND RAISING LIVING STANDARDS\n\nWhile many Californians consider buying hybrid cars and unplugging \ntheir computer, most of the world's 6 billion people covet having any \nkind of car and can only dream of having a laptop one day. Yet \nfighting global climate change will require lifestyle changes by \neveryone. How can that happen without slamming the world's poor, who \nare most vulnerable to the health and weather effects of global \nwarming? How can California's innovation in climate policy and \ntechnologies help by decoupling carbon emissions from GDP growth?\n\n\nThis program was recorded live on November 27, 2007\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices