Developing Tech to Reverse Climate Change

Event time: 
Friday, October 4, 2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
William L. Harkness Hall, Room 116 See map
100 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

The Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, Yale Center for Business and the Environment, and WE@Yale are excited to host a reception with Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky and Etosha Cave, two visionary entrepreneurs who have each founded companies that help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Dr. Chichilnisky and Dr. Cave will participate in a moderated discussion, followed by an informal reception with food and refreshments. The two will share their experiences starting environmental companies, and give insights from their journey in entrepreneurship as women from underrepresented backgrounds in the technology sphere.

Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky is the CEO and co-founder of Global Thermostat, a company that has created a “Carbon Negative Technology” that captures CO2 from air and transforms it into profitable assets such as biofuels, food, beverages and enhanced oil recovery. Along with co-founding the company, Dr. Chichilnisky is also the co-inventor of Global Thermostat’s carbon capture technology and co-owns the patents to this ground-breaking technology. Additionally, Dr. Chichilnisky is a Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics and a University Senator at Columbia University, and Director of the Columbia Consortium for Risk Management. Her environmental work spans decades — she created and designed the carbon market that became international law in 2005 and wrote the wording for the carbon market into the Kyoto Protocol at the COP in Kyoto in December 1997. Dr. Chichilnisky holds two Ph.D. degrees, in Mathematics and Economics from MIT and UC Berkeley.

Dr. Etosha Cave is the chief science officer and co-founder of Opus 12, a startup that recycles CO2 into higher-value products. She works with both the engineering team and the business development team to build the technology and grow the organization. She received her PhD from Stanford University, where she gained the foundational knowledge for this technology.

It’s Free!

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