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Webinar: Why Methane Matters with Erika Reinhardt, Spark Climate Solutions

Discussing the importance of an increased global focus on both limiting methane emissions and removing it from the atmosphere

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March 26, 2024

Wednesday, March 27, 8 PM EST (Zoom)

Our speaker, Erika Reinhardt, co-founder of Spark Climate Solutions, will be discussing the role of methane as a shorter-lived but much more powerful greenhouse gas, and the importance of an increased global focus on both limiting methane emissions and removing methane from the atmosphere. She will cover the significant potential of various methane removal pathways and the status of research into these pathways.

Methane is responsible for around 30% of the rise in global temperatures since the industrial revolution, according to the International Energy Agency. (Methane and climate change – Global Methane Tracker 2022 – Analysis - IEA)

About Erika and Spark Climate Solutions

Erika co-founded Spark Climate Solutions and leads the organization. Her background is in leading product engineering groups at high-growth software companies, with an impact orientation. Previously, she started and co-led U.S. Digital Response's work to provide local election offices across the country the products and technical expertise they needed to run a smooth election, led the Payments Experience engineering group at Stripe, served as the Director of Engineering at OpenAI, and was the Director of Product Engineering at Planet Labs after being an early engineer there. Erika studied computer science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering at MIT. She lives in San Francisco with her young family.

Spark Climate Solutions is a science-driven 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to identifying and mitigating sources of unmanaged climate risk. Spark works directly with scientists, policy makers, and peer organizations, and also offers grants to support the growth of fields with the potential to limit warming, manage Earth systems risk, and help to enable our return to a safe climate.

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