Workshop: Nature-based Climate Solutions and Biodiversity Conservation

Seeking Opportunities to Address Our Two Greatest Environmental Challenges Together
Date
  • Apr 3, 2023, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
  • Apr 4, 2023, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
Louis A. Simpson International Building (B60) and JRR Building, Room 399
Sponsors
  • Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment
  • Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
  • Centre for Natural Climate Solutions, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Audience
Open to Princeton University ID holders and invited guests
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aerial view of tree cover over Campos do Jordão, Brazil

Photo by Willian Justen de Vasconcellos on Unsplash

The world faces two inescapable, major environmental crises: the loss of biodiversity and global climate change. This workshop will bring together researchers from C-PREE at Princeton University and the Centre for Natural Climate Solutions at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to investigate how the world might simultaneously tackle both crises via the deployment of natural climate solutions.  Register here

 

Day 1 Agenda

Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room B60

9:00-9:30 AM
Welcome by the co-organizers, Prof. David Wilcove (Princeton University) and Prof. Lian Pin Koh (National University of Singapore)

Morning Sessions: 9:30 – 11:00 AM

  • 9:30-10:00a: Managing risks and uncertainties of forest carbon projects through climate science, Hoong Chen Teo (NUS)
  • 10:00-10:30a: Co-benefits of forest carbon projects in Southeast Asia, Tasya Vadya Sarira (NUS)
  • 10:30-11:00a: How long does abandoned cropland stay abandoned? Chris Crawford (Princeton)

Afternoon Sessions: 1:30 – 3:00 PM

  • 1:30-2:00p: Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation, Aakash Lambda (NUS)
  • 2:00-2:30p: How climate solutions may affect migratory shorebirds, Tong Mu (Princeton)
  • 2:30-3:00p: Revealed Greenness and Response to Climate Change Information: Evidence from Cocoa Farmers in Ghana, Jiayue Zhang (Brown)

 

Day 2 Agenda

Location: Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399

9:00-9:30 AM
Summary of Day 1 by the co-organizers, Prof. David Wilcove (Princeton University) and Prof. Lian Pin Koh (National University of Singapore)

Morning Sessions: 9:30 – 11:00 AM

  • 9:30-10:00a: Biodiversity implications of cropland abandonment, Chris Crawford (Princeton)
  • 10:00-10:30a: Mistakes and misconceptions about nature-based climate solutions, Tim Searchinger (Princeton)
  • 10:30-11:00am: Harnessing nature-based climate solutions for biodiversity: Projecting the dual impacts of land-use change and climate stabilization, Jeffrey Smith (Princeton)

Afternoon Sessions: 1:30 – 2:30 PM

  • 1:30-2:00p: Opportunities for mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss by effectively managing existing protected areas, Sreekar Rachakonda (NUS)
  • 2:00-2:30p: Mapping society’s choices for deploying land-based climate solutions, Eve Beaury (Princeton)