Listen "This Is CDR Ep. 65: Frontier + Carbonplan's CDR Verification Framework Updates."
Episode Synopsis
On this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha catch up with Carbonplan's Freya Chay and Frontier's Dr. Zeke Hausfather who present and discuss recent updates to the organizations' excellent CDR Verification Framework.
Presenter Links:
Frontier - https://frontierclimate.com/
Carbon Plan - https://carbonplan.org/
CDR Verification Framework - https://carbonplan.org/research/cdr-verification
About Freya:
Freya Chay is a Program Manager for Carbonplan. Freya has an interdisciplinary background in decarbonization. She’s particularly interested in how climate-forced transformations will impact culture and communities. She holds an MS in Earth Systems and a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
About Zeke:
Dr. Zeke Hausfather is Climate Research Lead for Stripe. He is a climate scientist whose research focuses on carbon removal, observational temperature records, climate models, and mitigation technologies. Zeke spent 10 years working as a data scientist and entrepreneur in the cleantech sector, where he was the lead data scientist at Essess, the chief scientist at C3.ai, and the cofounder and chief scientist of Efficiency 2.0. He also worked as a research scientist with Berkeley Earth, was the senior climate analyst at Project Drawdown, the US analyst for Carbon Brief, and the director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute. He has masters degrees in environmental science from Yale University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a PhD in climate science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Presenter Links:
Frontier - https://frontierclimate.com/
Carbon Plan - https://carbonplan.org/
CDR Verification Framework - https://carbonplan.org/research/cdr-verification
About Freya:
Freya Chay is a Program Manager for Carbonplan. Freya has an interdisciplinary background in decarbonization. She’s particularly interested in how climate-forced transformations will impact culture and communities. She holds an MS in Earth Systems and a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
About Zeke:
Dr. Zeke Hausfather is Climate Research Lead for Stripe. He is a climate scientist whose research focuses on carbon removal, observational temperature records, climate models, and mitigation technologies. Zeke spent 10 years working as a data scientist and entrepreneur in the cleantech sector, where he was the lead data scientist at Essess, the chief scientist at C3.ai, and the cofounder and chief scientist of Efficiency 2.0. He also worked as a research scientist with Berkeley Earth, was the senior climate analyst at Project Drawdown, the US analyst for Carbon Brief, and the director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute. He has masters degrees in environmental science from Yale University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a PhD in climate science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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