The Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters is sponsoring a one-day conference that a Northwoods environmental leader says is a key way to understand climate change.
Terry Daulton of Mercer is Board President of Wisconsin’s Green Fire. "Climate Fast Forward" is using crowd sourcing from attendees and experts to prepare for the topic areas being covered.
She says Green Fire members will be leading some of the topics..
"...Fred Clark is working on one of the sessions that might be of particular interest to people in the Northwoods. It's about how habitats like forests and agriculture lands that could form natural carbon buffers that provide a carbon sink to mitigate and reduce the impact of climate change. We also have Gary Radloff whose leading one of the sessions on energy systems and how we think about energy systems as we move forward...."
Among the other presenters are DNR Secretary Preston Cole and Mic Isham, Executive Administrator of the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission. Daulton says the idea is to bring broad ideas to action at the local level.
She says she hopes leaders at the state and local governments attend, including environmentalists and representatives of industry...
"...Climate change is going to affect all of our walks of life. It will vary on where we live geographically, what our careers are. Everybody needs to be pulling together to work on this...
" She says the conference is coming at a good time following Governor Evers Executive Order to try to get Wisconsin to eliminate carbon-based fuels by the year 2050, including creating an office of sustainability and clean energy. Earlier this month he also created the Climate Change Task Force.
More information on the November 8 "Climate Fast Forward" conference at the Monona Terrace can be found at the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters website.
