Franco-American Webinar No.3 on Carbon Storage at Farm and Landscape Levels

Université Paris-Saclay, Terre et Cité, UC Davis, the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority (OSA), The Nature Conservancy, and EIT Climate KIC have joined forces to set up a series of webinars on natural and working lands in periurban areas as keys to resilience in the face of climate change and biodiversity depletion.

Policy-makers, researchers, state representatives, farmers and other actors from the Plateau de Saclay and the Silicon Valley will present their work and reflect together on the design and implementation of policies for the ecological transition, as well as on the role of research in accelerating change.

Speakers

In France
- Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Senior scientist in climate science at LSCE (UPSaclay, CNRS, CEA, UVSQ), IPCC Working Group I Co-Chair
- Julien Viau, Head of the Carbon Market Office, French Ministry of the Ecological and Solidarity Transition
- Jean-Baptiste Dollé, Head of the Environment Department, Livestock Institute
- Sébastien Philippe, Agroenvironment research manager, Chambre d'Agriculture d'Ile-De-France
- Dorian Spaak, Coordinator of Terre et Cité

In the USA
- Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture
- Jeanne Merrill, Policy Director at the California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN)
- Dr. Kerri Steenwerth, Research Soil Scientist for USDA-ARS-CPRGU at UC Davis
- Michael Meehan, Agriculture Plan Program Manager for Santa Clara County

Date and times: Thursday, November 18, 2021, 9-11am (California) / 6-8pm (Paris)

A simultaneous translation service will be available during the webinar.

Watch the introductory webinar from January 2021 on Université Paris-Saclay's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilYXAH3ByQw

Watch the webinar from October 2021 on Université Paris-Saclay's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvwscrIfAfU

For more information and to register: https://terreetcite.org/en/page_us_en/