Posted by Steve Solbrack, Environment Action Team Chair

Our District 5950 Environment Action Team and several Rotary clubs are sponsoring a Climate Solutions Workshop on January 25.  

Workshop participants will identify solutions that keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C, and preferable not more than 1.5 degrees C, above pre-industrial levels by the year 2100. These could range from adjusting energy efficiency, carbon pricing, fossil fuel taxes, reducing deforestation, and carbon dioxide removal among many others. The solutions are tested in the En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator (Energy – Rapid Overview and Decision Support model, http://enroads.org) where their cumulative impact on global air temperature, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and air quality among other can be seen. The En-Roads simulator is a transparent, freely-available policy simulation model that provides policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public with the ability to explore, for themselves, the likely consequences of energy, economic growth, land use, and other policies and uncertainties, with the goal of improving their understanding.

Register on the website or Facebook event. Join registrants from eight other states (and counting!).

This workshop is sponsored by The Rotary Clubs of Twin Cities EcoClub and Maple Grove, Eden Prairie ESRAG, District 5950 Environment Action Team and a Group of MIT Alumni.