This Is CDR Ep. 53: Just and Equitable DAC Hubs with Dr. Simone Stewart and Celina Scott-Buechler

This week on This Is CDR, we are pleased to welcome Celina Scott-Buechler from Data for Progress and Dr. Simone H. Stewart from the National Wildlife Federation to present their important recent work on Charting a Path to Just DAC Hubs. LINKS - https://www.nwf.org/Our-Work/Environmental-Threats/Climate-Change - https://www.dataforprogress.org/ - https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/charting-a-path-to-just-direct-air-capture-hubs - https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2022/4/dfp-nys-cdrla-toplines.pdf - https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2022/5/18/voters-want-state-and-federal-lawmakers-to-lead-on-carbon-dioxide-removal-new-york - https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/24/carbon_removal_could_clean_up_our_planet__if_we_get_it_right_860891.html - https://carboncurve.substack.com/p/cdr-equitable-deployment ABOUT OUR GUESTS Celina Scott-Buechler ( https://twitter.com/cescobu )is the Senior Resident Fellow for Climate Innovation at Data for Progress (DFP), where she leads DFP’s growing work on progressive carbon removal solutions—removing gigatons of past greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere by developing equitable, community-beneficial, and environmental justice-centered strategies. Celina has worked as a legislative staffer for Senator Cory Booker, policy director for the Center for Environmental Peacebuilding, and consultant to the UN. She is currently co-chair of the research consortium Ocean Visions' marine circular bioeconomy taskforce and serves on the board of directors of the Telluride Association, an education-democracy non-profit. Celina is also pursuing a PhD in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program for Environment and Resources at the Stanford School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences. She graduated summa cum laude from the honors College Scholars program at Cornell University, where she also earned her master's in atmospheric science. Dr. Simone H. Stewart ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-stewart )currently works as the industrial policy specialist on NWF's Climate and Energy Policy program team, with a portfolio focused on carbon capture, utilization, and storage, carbon dioxide removal technologies, and other strategies to aid in a just green transition for difficult to decarbonize sectors such as energy and industry. She is a published researcher in the field of fluid mechanics and earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. At UCSB her research focused on investigating the fluid mechanics of fluxes over rough surfaces, with applications in large-scale direct air carbon capture and clean energy architecture. During that time, she also worked as the graduate assistant for the Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy, where she led a variety of programming, created detailed info campaigns centered around justice and community enfranchisement, and helped develop a comprehensive People’s Guide to the Green New Deal rooted in the tenants of environmental and economic justice..