Tracking (and Activating) Climate Solutions: Electric Vehicles in Georgia

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday October 6, 2022
      1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Location: Online
  • Phone:
  • URL: https://bit.ly/TransportEV
  • Email:
  • Fee(s):
    N/A
  • Extras:
Contact

Min-kyeong (Min) Cha

mcha39@gatech.edu

Summaries

Summary Sentence: Second seminar of Tracking (and Activating) Climate Solutions seminar series.

Full Summary: Second seminar of Tracking (and Activating) Climate Solutions seminar series.

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Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy is organizing a series of seminars to inform the development of a climate solutions tracker for Drawdown Georgia and to assist Business Compact members in their climate action strategies.  

We will discuss the following topics:

  • innovative ways to track solution adoption
  • places and people in Georgia that are demonstrating progress  
  • critical infrastructure and enabling policies
  • characterizing market adoption and equity issues 
  • the potential for accelerating adoption 
  • business and thought leaders who should be consulted  

Speakers

Richard Simmons, director of research and studies of Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech, will discuss “Key technological & economic opportunities & challenges faced by EVs in Georgia: charging infrastructure, grid demands, & environmental impacts.”  

Anne Blair, policy director of Electrification Coalition, will discuss “Georgia's EV landscape and implications and opportunities of recent federal laws & state actions on Georgia's electric transportation future.”  

Moderated by Marilyn A. Brown, Regents' Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Join online at: https://bit.ly/TransportEV.

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Public Policy

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Postdoc, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
electric cars, Drawdown Georgia, drawdown ga
Status
  • Created By: cwhittle9
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Sep 30, 2022 - 12:26pm
  • Last Updated: Oct 5, 2022 - 10:00pm