Solving the Climate Problem: Technologies Available to Curb CO2Emissions

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsStephen PacalaRobert Socolow is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, New Jersey, and co-director of the Carbon Initiative, a 10-year, university-wide research program within the Princeton Environmental Institute. The initiative, sponsered by BP and Ford, explores the science, technology, and policy dimensions of global carbon mitigation. Socolow's current research focuses on global carbon management and mitigation and energy and environmental technology and policy. He is a contributing editor of Environment and may be reached at socolow@princeton.eduRoberta Hotinski is an information officer for the Carbon Mitigation Initiative. She oversees communication of the initiative's research results to corporate sponsers, the research community, the media, and the general public. Her previous research focused on paleoceanography and ocean biogeochemical cycles. She may be reached at (609) 258-7253 or via e-mail at hotinski@princeton.edu.Jeffery B. Greenblalt is a research staff member at Princeton University. His research interests include modeling of global energy systems, wind energy, the ocean carbon cycle, and population. He may be reached at (609) 258-7442 or via e-mail at jgreenbl@princeton.edu. Stephen Pacala is the Petrie Professor of Biology at Princeton's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative. His research focuses on the processes that govern ecological communities, the interplay between community and ecosystem-level processes, and the interactions between the global biosphere and climate. Pacala is currently working on a new model of the terrestrial biosphere. He may be reached at pacala@princeton.edu. Details of calculations given here and more complete references can be found in the paper S. Pacala and R. Socolow. "Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies" Science, 13 August 2004, 968-72, available at the Carbon Mitigation Initiative Web site, http://www.princeton.edu/∼cmi.