We want to invite everyone to learn more about climate change, discover the science behind it, and dispel the myths, or preconceptions they might have around the topic. At Low Carbon City we believe that knowledge allows us to build bridges, reaching more people to discover that the more we learn and teach each other, the more opportunities we will create to build collective solutions to climate change. The reality of man made climate change, leading to rising temperatures across the globe and upsetting the planetary climate system is undeniable, we can all benefit from learning more about the science that studies this phenomenon.
How does it work?
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You can send us your question through the form that you can find by clicking the button below.
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We will submit it to a scientist that is a specialist in the subject.
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The scientist will reply with a pertinent answer to the question.
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We will share the answer with you and through our social media, so that we can all learn from this knowledge.
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What sort of questions can you ask?
All of them!
The only bad question is the one you didn’t ask.
Get to know some of the scientists that will be answering your questions:
Paola heads the Environmental School of the University of Antioquia. As a brilliant scientist she was chosen by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to participate as an author in their next report.
She is the first Colombian woman to reach this position, writing in the chapter that will deal with the hydrological cycle of the planet and the changes it has endured. This report should be ready by 2021 and will play a key role in the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
A Civil Engineer she has a MS in Hydraulic Resources, a MS in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Georgia Tech, a PhD in Geological Sciences from the University of Texas and did postdoctoral research in the Department of Geophysics of the University of Chile.
Claudia is a Forest Engineer with a M.Sc. in Forests and Environmental Conservation of the National University of Colombia. She works in the conservation and recovery of degraded ecosystems and in the search for strategies to mitigate climate change and avoid the loss of biodiversity. She has studied the dynamics and functioning of the Andean, Amazonian and coastal forests in Colombia for the past nine years. She has participated in the establishment of permanent land for the implementation of monitoring, reporting and verification systems for carbon stock capture in the Colombian montane forests, Amazon rain forest, and mangroves. In addition to her love for research, Claudia participates since early 2015 in forestry projects to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in Latin America and Australia, which seek to recover native forests on land degraded by livestock, agriculture or mining; as well as avoiding the loss of conserved forests or those with deforestation potential. Currently, Claudia Milena is senior coordinator of agricultural projects and other soil management projects at South Pole.
Andrés is a pioneer researcher and Fulbright fellow in renewable energies from Medellin. Currently studying his PhD. In Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. During his undergraduate studies, he developed a concentrating photovoltaic system for Primavera, the first Colombian solar vehicle, which was awarded at a national level and managed to cross the Australian desert. After that he graduated with high honors from a B.A in Product Design Engineering from EAFIT University.
His current research interests range in the intersections between renewable energies, artificial intelligence, biomimicry, and behavioral economics. His important research explores the potential of implementing Swarm Intelligence in autonomously self-adapting populations of solar harvesting devices. And also touches on how societies react to rapid technological growth that pose potential long-term existential risks, such as with anthropogenic climate change and artificial intelligence.
Susana Vélez Haller, is a Forestry Engineer from the National University of Colombia, where she also specialized in Environmental Management, and a Masters in Sustainable Resource Management at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Susana has more than 12 years of experience in the Colombian environmental sector, where she has held positions in the public and private sectors. In recent years she has focused her career on the integral management of climate change. Within his experience is the formulation of projects, the technical and administrative coordination of the same, the construction of public policies and the work with local communities. Susana participated in the construction of the National REDD Strategy for Colombia (Strategy for the Comprehensive Fight against Deforestation), from different positions and perspectives. Specifically, she contributed to the process of construction of the national safeguards scheme for Colombia and the community monitoring strategy for deforestation. She participated in the construction of subnational strategies to combat deforestation such as Vision Amazonía and Visión Pacífico.Her experience encompasses the formulation of public policies, international negotiations, low carbon development, the protection of ecosystems as a natural adaptation strategy to climate change, low carbon development, the mitigation of GHG emissions and carbon markets. She is currently a Senior Consultant in the public policy team at South Pole.
