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Drawdown Georgia Project

Marilyn Brown, PhD, NAE, NAS, CEM

Regents Professor, Climate and Energy Policy Lab

School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech

Tracking Climate Solutions:

Seminar #1: Transportation

December 19, 2023

Good afternoon. My name is Marilyn Brown, and with support from RCAF, I have been leading the DDGA research program since 2019, in collaboration with many universities and NGOs across the state. Today’s seminar is part of our initiative to track (and activate) the deployment of climate solutions in Georgia.

I will start off this webinar by giving an overview of the ‘series’ that this webinar is a part of. And I’ll highlight some of Drawdown Georgia’s recent accomplishments.

Then we will turn to today’s two fantastic speakers: Rich Simmons and Anne Blair.

They will share their thoughts about the opportunities and challenges of EVs in Georgia and the current and evolving policy landscape.

This session is being recorded and your mics and videos will be muted throughout.

Please use the chat option to ask questions or comment. Several graduate students are keeping an eye on the chat and will identify questions that the speakers could answer during the Q&A session.

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5 high potential electricity solutions for Georgia

By eliminating 2.5% of vehicle miles travelled.

By locating 320,000 additional households in transit-oriented developments

By replacing 250,000 gas-powered vehicles with electric vehicles

By exceeding regulatory requirements on fleetwide fuel economy for light-duty vehicles by just 3% through 2030.

By reducing diesel fuel use in medium- and heavy-duty trucks by 10%.

How each solution could reduce

1 MtCO2-e in Georgia:

Cost per tCO2-e (in $2021)

Source: Brown, MA. et al. (2021). “A Framework for Localizing Global Climate Solutions and their Carbon Reduction Potential,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (31); https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100008118

$-5.2 to $-1.7

$128.2

$29.8 to $159.2

$27.6

$-40.9

Alternative Mobility

Mass Transit

Electric Vehicles

Energy Efficient Cars

Energy Efficient Trucks

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Agenda

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11:00 Welcome & Intro to Drawdown Georgia (Marilyn Brown)

--Please use “chat” for asking questions

--We will be recording this session; the PPT will be posted, but not the video

11:10 Drawdown Georgia's emissions tracker (Marilyn Brown and Bill Drummond)

11:20 Navigating the beta version of Drawdown Georgia's solutions tracker (Taylor Clark goes off-line to demo the tracker and data documentation)

11:35 Solution pages, CEJST/LIDAC + Gini coefficients (Marilyn Brown and Ryan Anthony)

11:45 Insights from Drawdown Georgia's website and blogs (Suprita Chakravarthy)

11:50 Q&A (Marilyn Brown)

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Agenda

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11:00 Welcome & Intro to Drawdown Georgia (Marilyn Brown)

--Please use “chat” for asking questions

--We will be recording this session, but will not post the video

11:10 Drawdown Georgia's emissions tracker (Marilyn Brown and Bill Drummond)

11:20 Navigating the beta version of Drawdown Georgia's solutions tracker (Taylor Clark goes off-line with a demo of the tracker and the data documentation)

11:30 Alternative mobility, biking, and EV dashboards + Gini coefficients (Marilyn Brown and Ryan Anthony)

11:45 Q&A and next steps (Marilyn Brown)

Intro to Drawdown Georgia

Since its creation in 2019, the Drawdown Georgia Research Team has expanded & diversified, & our research is making a difference�

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The Drawdown Georgia Research Team

A Research Advisory Panel was created in 2023 (more here)

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Track and Estimate Solution Impacts

Diversify

Advisors & Research Team

Track and Share GHG Emissions

Profiles

Intro to the Drawdown Georgia Research Program

Engage Business Compact Members

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Drawdown Georgia’s emissions tracker�

Marilyn Brown and Bill Drummond

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The Emissions Tracker provides a foundation for tracking solutions

Primary goal: help understand �Georgia's GHG emissions by making them as local, timely, and accessible as possible.

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Additional goal:

Monitor progress toward net zero
To do this we must separately track both emissions and removals�

The Emissions Tracker is available at:

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Drawdown�Georgia

by the

Numbers��A free, quarterly,

county-level,

email-based,

subscription

newsletter

Go to drawdownga.org.

At the bottom of the page click on Subscribe to Emissions Data.

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http://bit.ly/3RKedCa

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At the same time:

The Southeast is taking advantage of clean tech manufacturing opportunities.

Georgia is an innovation hub for "next gen" clean energy systems. This includes EVs and batteries (with declining costs), hydrogen (for heavy-duty vehicles), & sustainable aviation fuels.

Clean energy manufacturing investments in the Southeast are booming.

oure:

https://nca023.globalchange.gov/

Source:

https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/

COP28 commitment: "transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems"

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Navigating the Solutions Tracker

Taylor Clarke

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To support “peer-suation” and solution activation, we’ve developed the “beta” version of an interactive Solutions Tracker for Georgia

Sector 1

Sector 2

Sector 4

Sector 5

Sector 3, Solution 1

Sector 3, Solution “n”

Landing Page

Sector 3

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Documentation available here

Drawdown Georgia Solutions Tracker Home

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Transportation Solutions

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Transportation: Solution pages, CEJST/LIDAC & Gini coefficients�

Marilyn Brown and Ryan Anthony

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Biking Solution Overview