The first in a series of online talks with authors on books exploring climate and environmental challenges and solutions, hosted by the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

Woods Senior Fellow Rob Jackson is the author of Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere (Simon & Schuster). Jackson, a professor of earth science with the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, is chair of the Global Carbon Project and one of the top five most-cited climate and environmental scientists in the world. 

He is also a poet and artist, and his book melds science with compelling storytelling to offer a hopeful and attainable vision for restoring the atmosphere and ending the climate crisis. Named one of Scientific American’s and The Times (London’s) best books of 2024, Into the Clear Blue Sky introduces the brilliant leaders and innovators behind some of the boldest and game-changing climate solutions under development. Decades of inaction have convinced Jackson that we need to remove greenhouse gases from the air using everything from nature to cutting-edge technologies. In this talk he and Woods faculty director Chris Field discussed how we can use technologies and social movements to restore the atmosphere in the same spirit we use to restore habitats and endangered species. 

For more information, contact: woods-events@stanford.edu

Zoom link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91464522006?pwd=ilvbnmcskh18ZCYVCBzhXSc7u8HNpP.1

Speakers:

Rob Jackson, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy

Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment; Melvin and Joan Lane Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Biology; and Professor of Earth System Science, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability