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#24: The Clean Air Task Force with Armond Cohen
In this episode, Manuel Brenner is joined by Armond Cohen.
Armond Cohen is co-founder and Executive Director of the Clean Air Task Force, which he has led since its formation in 1996.
The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a global non-profit organization working to safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment of low-carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies through research, analysis, public advocacy leadership, and partnership with the private sector.
This is the first episode of a 3-part miniseries that ACIT is hosting together with the CATF.
In this episode, we discuss what the CATF is and how it works, current paradigms in the climate movement, the importance of optionality, why wind and solar will probably not be exclusive solutions to the issue of climate change, how to advance a carbon-free energy sector in developing countries without falling back to neo-colonial policies, optimism vs. apocalyptic thinking in the climate movement, politics and partisanship in the US and internationally and how they interact with innovation in the energy sector, what changes the endorsement of the CATF by the effective altruism foundation have made possible in recent years, and much more.
Find out more about the Clean Air Task Force:
https://www.catf.us/about/
Stay updated with future episodes:
https://mailchi.mp/0346443b6ddf/acit-global-signup
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By Manuel BrennerIn this episode, Manuel Brenner is joined by Armond Cohen.
Armond Cohen is co-founder and Executive Director of the Clean Air Task Force, which he has led since its formation in 1996.
The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a global non-profit organization working to safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment of low-carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies through research, analysis, public advocacy leadership, and partnership with the private sector.
This is the first episode of a 3-part miniseries that ACIT is hosting together with the CATF.
In this episode, we discuss what the CATF is and how it works, current paradigms in the climate movement, the importance of optionality, why wind and solar will probably not be exclusive solutions to the issue of climate change, how to advance a carbon-free energy sector in developing countries without falling back to neo-colonial policies, optimism vs. apocalyptic thinking in the climate movement, politics and partisanship in the US and internationally and how they interact with innovation in the energy sector, what changes the endorsement of the CATF by the effective altruism foundation have made possible in recent years, and much more.
Find out more about the Clean Air Task Force:
https://www.catf.us/about/
Stay updated with future episodes:
https://mailchi.mp/0346443b6ddf/acit-global-signup