{"649659":{"#nid":"649659","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Climate Conference This Week Will Highlight Risks And Solutions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy Regents Professor Marilyn Brown, lead author on a recently published article in\u0026nbsp;the \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences \u003C\/em\u003Eon the potential to reduce Georgia\u0026#39;s carbon footprint, was quoted in\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Georgia Climate Conference This Week Will Highlight Risks And Solutions,\u0026quot; published Aug. 10, 2021, by\u0026nbsp;WABE.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article discusses plans for the Georgia Climate Conference, which comes amid recent warnings about global warming. The article quoted Brown discussing Drawdown Georgia, an effort to develop a carbon reduction framework for the state, and the findings of\u0026nbsp;her recent paper, written with colleagues at Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia, and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m particularly bullish with the impact of large-scale solar because it\u0026rsquo;s a very big driver,\u0026rdquo; said Marilyn Brown, a public policy professor at Georgia Tech and lead author on the paper, which was published in the \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESolar combined with electric vehicles make for an even bigger impact, she said. And there would be positive public health outcomes, too.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If you invest in EVs, and you don\u0026rsquo;t clean the grid, you actually may not make any difference. With a clean grid, though, it\u0026rsquo;s a profound impact. And it\u0026rsquo;s an immediate impact,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2021-08-13 13:15:54","changed_gmt":"2021-08-13 13:17:45","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"2022 benefits","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/georgia-climate-conference-this-week-will-highlight-risks-and-solutions\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641506":{"id":"641506","type":"image","title":"Marilyn Brown","body":null,"created":"1605909983","gmt_created":"2020-11-20 22:06:23","changed":"1612386538","gmt_changed":"2021-02-03 21:08:58","alt":"Regents Professor Marilyn Brown","file":{"fid":"243767","name":"RS644_Marilyn A Brown_2020jpg-scr (1).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS644_Marilyn%20A%20Brown_2020jpg-scr%20%281%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS644_Marilyn%20A%20Brown_2020jpg-scr%20%281%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":98293,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RS644_Marilyn%20A%20Brown_2020jpg-scr%20%281%29.jpg?itok=uDcX-sHf"}}},"media_ids":["641506"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}