CUIDS Distinguished Speaker Series

State of the Climate 2024 and the Role of Nature-Based Climate Solutions

Join Prof. Damon Matthews as he provides an update on the state of global climate change, including anticipated future trajectories and the consequent implications for Canada and the world. He will speak about the potential role of nature-based climate solutions: efforts to leverage natural systems to store and sequester carbon while also contributing to other environmental and social goals. In this context, he will present some recent research showing that investing in natural systems has climate value, but that this value is of a different character than fossil fuel emissions reductions, raising questions about the appropriate use of carbon offsets as a contribution to climate mitigation goals.

Moderator: Tracey Lauriault - Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication