{"id":5,"date":"2019-10-28T12:53:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T16:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/2019-climate-change-workshop\/"},"modified":"2020-03-13T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T20:49:03","slug":"2019-climate-change-workshop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prospects and Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On December 3rd and 4th, 2019, Boston University hosted a workshop aimed at assessing the extent to which Synthetic and Systems Biology (SSB) can contribute to addressing the climate change challenge.\u00a0 A small group of thought leaders gathered to discuss the extent to which SSB can contribute to reduction in the atmospheric CO2 concentration, and the potential direct and indirect responses such approaches might provoke.<\/p>\n<p>Participants included leaders in ethics, science, policy and economics, reflecting a broad spectrum of complex challenges and potential benefits of biologically driven CDR.<em><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymedia.bu.edu\/channel\/channelid\/146703561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH THE SESSIONS\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/climate-change\/files\/2019\/12\/web-agenda-12-4_jv.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGENDA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/climate-change\/files\/2019\/12\/Participant-List-11-27_jv.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PARTICIPANTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/climate-change\/files\/2019\/11\/web-steering_organizers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORGANIZERS AND STEERING COMMITTEE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: right;\"><sup><span style=\"color: #008000;\">This workshop was supported in part\u00a0by a grant from <\/span><\/sup><sup><span style=\"color: #008000;\">the\u00a0Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, \r\n<\/span><\/sup><sup><span style=\"color: #008000;\">and by the\u00a0Graduate Program in Bioinformatics\u00a0\r\nand Systems Biology, <\/span><\/sup><sup><span style=\"color: #008000;\">and the College of Engineering at Boston University<\/span><\/sup><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction:\u00a0 Prospects and Challenges On December 3rd and 4th, 2019, Boston University hosted a workshop aimed at assessing the extent to which Synthetic and Systems Biology (SSB) can contribute to addressing the climate change challenge.\u00a0 A small group of thought leaders gathered to discuss the extent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1391,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climate-change\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}