Dr. Libby Blanchard

Postdoc, climate policy @uutah @wilkescenter. Board co-chair @GatesAlumni Past: @ucberkeley Berkeley Carbon Trading Project & @Gates_Cambridge

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

Last lecture of the year. It’s such a joy to share my learning with students. ⁦@uofutah⁩

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

We lost one of our community’s kindest, thoughtful people this week. Thank you @PSutoris for this beautiful essay on our friend. Lighting a candle for Arif tonight. Missing him.

[Dr. Peter Sutoris @PSutoris]

It was an honour to write this essay in @scroll_in about @arif_naveed's fascinating life: from a village in Pakistan, to a prominent academic in Britain, to facing untimely death. What does it mean to win against poverty but lose against time? https://t.co/gXUxy4bZTt

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

Thrilled to collaborate as a co-author and have this @Microsoft white paper out this week: "Investing in Nature for Sustainability." https://t.co/UhtFuVYoB0

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

Along with the brilliant Barbara Haya and Stephen Lezak at University of California, Berkeley released a preprint this morning on the History of "Contribution" Approaches for Climate Mitigation. https://t.co/o18mwLPYGL Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

Check out the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project's post on the @DNC's decision to focus on direct emissions reductions instead of carbon credits. This post grows out of two articles we collaborated on, laying the case for contributions instead of offsetting https://t.co/Av2K89ezLy

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

@GatesAlumni are doing amazing work across the globe to improve the lives of others. Now is your chance to nominate a @Gates_Cambridge scholar alum for the 25th Anniversary Impact Prize.

[Gates Cambridge @Gates_Cambridge]

Gates Cambridge launches Impact Prize to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Nominations now open - https://t.co/k1HeIM5bSX

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

@GatesAlumni are doing amazing work across the globe. Now is your chance to nominate a scholar to receive a 25th anniversary Impact Prize!

[Gates Cambridge @Gates_Cambridge]

Gates Cambridge launches Impact Prize to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Nominations now open - https://t.co/k1HeIM5bSX

[Gates Cambridge @Gates_Cambridge]

Gates Cambridge launches Impact Prize to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Nominations now open - https://t.co/k1HeIM5bSX

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

We’re not going to reach our climate targets if we keep doing this.

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

Recharged after a fabulous @GatesCambridge reunion.

[Philip Pullman @PhilipPullman]

The lengthy sentences on the 'Just Stop Oil' protestors are grotesquely disproportionate. As for the judge forbidding them to explain why they were protesting, it looks. like fascism. I deplore it.

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

Also, here's a lovely discussion of the contributions approach in MIT @techreview this week: https://t.co/aF0xYDKkw6

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

Myself and colleagues have a paper out today in @OneEarth_CP. We share three principles to shape the contributions approach for nature-based climate solutions to promote rigour and prevent harm. Check it out! https://t.co/4V1Gu5BnV3

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“If humanity does not act swiftly to limit it, climate change will cost a typical child born in 2024 at least around $500,000 over their lifetime—and possibly as much as $1 million—through a combination of cost-of-living increases and reduced earnings.” https://t.co/mz154Rpcib

[Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy @WilkesCenter]

Today in @Nature, @WilkesCenter Director William Anderegg and his colleagues called on the trustees of @sciencetargets (SBTi) to rescind their decision allowing #carbonoffsets for business' indirect #scope3 fossil-fuel emissions.
https://t.co/rvQeLLwJrw

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

My first Correspondence in Nature (co-authored with the great Bill Anderegg @WilkesCenter and 32 other scientists), against @sciencetargets trustees' endorsement of #carbonoffsets for #scope3 emissions. @uofutah

https://t.co/GckK94knjz

[Geoffrey Supran @GeoffreySupran]

OPEC's leaked goal to “proactively reject any [#COP28 ] text that targets fossil fuels, rather than emissions” is, I think, the 1st *explicit* admission of Big Oil's strategy to shift climate responsibility from supply/fossil fuels to demand/emissions. 1/n https://t.co/0xJXgRgAE1

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

When will the world really pass 1.5C (excluding year-to-year natural variability)?

The IPCC AR6 estimates it will happen around 2031 (with an uncertainty range spanning 2024 to 2043) in a current-policy-type SSP2-4.5 emissions scenario:

[Dr. Libby Blanchard @blanchardlibby]

Our public comments on @CFTC Commission Guidance Regarding the Listing of Voluntary Carbon Credit Derivative Contracts @WilkesCenter
https://t.co/KKDSYBQHcM

[Stanford ENERGY @StanfordEnergy]

Over a billion dollars have been spent on forest and land use #carbon credits to “offset” emissions, but these #offsets aren’t delivering.
Read the analysis @SSIReview:
https://t.co/gAsRRIEZIv
#climate
@blanchardlibby @WilkesCenter @GoldmanSchool @UCBerkeley @UUtah