What do members of the public and policy makers think about carbon removal? How does the framing of carbon removal, such as presenting specific approaches to carbon removal as “natural,” affect people’s views? How does political identity or people’s level of trust in corporations or scientists affect those views? How do people’s attitudes toward carbon removal relate to their attitudes toward other responses to climate change? Three expert panelists discuss these and related questions in this webinar on public perceptions of carbon removal presented by the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy.

Panelists:

Dr. Kaitlin Raimi is an associate professor of public policy at the Ford School. As a social/environmental psychologist, her interests center on how individuals can promote or prevent sustainable behaviors and policies. She has three broad areas of research: (1) how people compare their own beliefs and behaviors to others, (2) how adopting one pro-environmental behavior affects later action, and (3) how climate change communication affects people’s understanding, behaviors, and support for climate policies and technologies. Before joining the Ford School completed a Ph.D. in social psychology from Duke University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy & Environment.

Dr. Rob Bellamy is a Presidential Fellow in Environment in the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester. He joined Manchester in 2018 after five years as James Martin Fellow in the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the interactions between global environmental change and society, particularly in relation to climate change, negative emissions and geoengineering. He has published widely on these topics in top-ranked academic journals, including Nature Energy, Global Environmental Change and Environmental Science & Policy. He has also served as an advisor on climate change issues to various government departments. Bellamy is committed to interdisciplinarity and draws on insights from across the natural and social sciences and the humanities.

Leah Naess Wanambwa is a Senior Policy Officer and Directorate of Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy, at the African Union Commission based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she focuses on wildlife conservation and climate change issues. She previously worked in the Communication Department at the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya.

Moderator:

Dr. David Morrow is the Director of Research for the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy. Dr. Morrow works on normative aspects of climate policy, especially climate justice and the ethics and governance of carbon removal and climate engineering. He was previously an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he taught in the philosophy and political economy program.