Dr. Vandana Janeja Presented at CRA about Climate Change

Climate change has been declared as the defining crisis of our time and concrete actions are needed now. Many communities have started major initiatives to address climate change. For example, the Biden administration has made it a central priority for all federal agencies resulting in initiatives for reducing greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions (e.g., electric vehicles), absorbing GHG (e.g., forests), increasing resilience (sea level rise, forest fires, extreme cold/hot weather), etc. This panel will bring together thought leaders in academia, industry and government to explore climate-smart computing opportunities by addressing questions such as the following:

• What is climate-smart computing? What may it help understand, mitigate, and adapt to climate change? How may we reduce computing’s carbon footprint?
• What are computing research success stories in this area?
• What are major computing opportunities in this area?
• How may new computing researchers get involved?
• What are key research infrastructures (e.g., datasets, cyberinfrastructure, funding)?
• Is there a need for computing research community action? If so, recommend