In this Climate Chat episode, we interview Ken Berlin, former President & CEO of Al Gore's Climate Reality Project and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, a think tank focused on climate and energy. We will discuss how the Climate Reality Project engages people on climate and we will also discuss Ken's work on cost competitive climate solutions at the Atlantic Council. Ken Berlin is a senior fellow and the director of the Financing and Achieving Cost Competitive Climate Solutions Project at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. He has devoted his career to leadership on environment, energy, and climate-change issues. From 2014 to May 2022, Berlin was the president and chief executive officer of the Climate Reality Project, an organization founded and chaired by former US vice president Al Gore. He built the project into an international organization with offices in eleven countries and 130 chapters in the United States. The Climate Reality Project is dedicated to building public support for addressing the climate crisis. It has led multi-day trainings for over forty thousand climate activists, gathered the activists into a powerful international grassroots network, and activated them to work on climate-crisis issues and solutions. Berlin was a co-founder with Reed Hundt in 2010 of the Coalition for Green Capital, an organization that works with governments at the international, national, state, and local levels to establish green bank finance institutions to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean transportation. Prior to that, he chaired the Environmental and Climate Change practices at the law firm of Skadden Arps where he was recognized as one of the leading climate-change attorneys in the United States and internationally. He has extensive legal and policy expertise on US and international environmental issues including clean energy; corporate compliance; environmental, social, and corporate governance; biodiversity; and forestry. Berlin has served as chairman of the board of the Environmental Law Institute, the Center for International Environmental Law, the American Bird Conservancy, and Rare. He has served on the boards of other wildlife and environmental organizations and was involved with founding of the Alliance for Zero Extinction. He founded the Wildlife and Marine Resource s Section in the US Department of Justice. Berlin is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Law School. Ken's Atlantic Council page: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/ken-berlin/ Policy papers from the Atlantic Council that we will discuss: Transitioning to the clean energy grid: A deep dive into the levelized cost of electricity: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/transitioning-to-the-clean-energy-grid-a-deep-dive-into-the-levelized-cost-of-electricity/ Guarantees 2.0: Meeting Climate Finance Needs in the Global South: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/guarantees-2-0-meeting-climate-finance-needs-in-the-global-south/ The flaws in project-based carbon credit trading and the need for jurisdictional alternatives: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/the-flaws-in-project-based-carbon-credit-trading-and-the-need-for-jurisdictional-alternatives/ ------------- Follow Dan on X/Twitter: @danmiller999 To join the Zoom discussion, visit Dan's Clubhouse room. The link is provided in Dan's Twitter feed. You can also leave a question in the YouTube Live chat. Please begin your question with "Question:" to make it easy for our mods to spot it. For more Climate Chat episodes, see our YouTube home page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3BXcpYFCzTndJ9Fisi32qg For recent YouTube Live programs: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat/streams
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