{"id":12433,"date":"2017-11-30t13:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-30t13:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/expert-qa-negative-emissions-environmental-assessment-could-help-save-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07t19:39:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07t19:39:40","slug":"negative-emissions-env-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/negative-emissions-env-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"expert q&a: negative emissions & environmental assessment could help save the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"
george washington university recently hosted a daylong workshop for ngos on carbon dioxide removal and negative emissions. we tagged along to learn more about negative emissions technology, environmental assessment, and climate change response options. one of the experts presenting at the event, stanford university senior research scientist katherine mach, sat down with us to tell us more about herself and the technology. here’s what she had to say:<\/p>\n
planet forward: how did you come to pursue a career in climate change assessment?<\/strong><\/p>\n katharine mach: <\/strong>my research background when i was a graduate student was focused on the oceans. i was looking at the way crashing waves shape what grows in the ecosystems right along the edge of the water. it was very challenging and exciting work. basically saying \u2013 what\u2019s environmental risk in the world right now? how does that shift as the climate warms and extreme temperatures play out and waves potentially change in terms of when they are crashing? however, what i didn\u2019t like about that was some of the biggest issues regarding the ocean were acidification<\/a>, overfishing<\/a>, pollution<\/a>, and climate change<\/a> \u2013 and these were all left out. so, when i went for my ph.d. i did something a little bit wild and i jumped to the ippc, not really knowing what it was going to be like as a postdoctoral research associate. it was incredible, i was working with experts from around the world \u2013 physicists, moral philosophers, people looking at food security \u2013 every continent, every discipline, coming together trying to figure out what\u2019s the state of knowledge of all aspects of the climate challenge and how can you make that knowledge relevant in real time to societies in the decision-making processes. i was fascinated by assessment; i really liked how it was a full state of knowledge, what we know and what we don\u2019t and how that requires a lot of interactions among people to figure out what are the strengths and weaknesses of different lines of evidence. from there i shifted my focus to figuring out how to do assessment well<\/em>. <\/p>\n