Climate Solutions

Keynote Speaker

Chad Frischmann—Senior Director, Research & Technology, Project Drawdown

Chad Frischmann is a co-author, and the lead researcher and principal architect of the methodology and models behind the New York Times best-seller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Penguin, 2017) and the Drawdown Review (February, 2020). Leading a global team of researchers, Chad designed integrated global models to assess the world’s most effective climate solutions and determine if, when, and how the world can reach “drawdown,” the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases begins to decline on a year-to-year basis. As head of research and technology since Project Drawdown’s inception, Chad is a key spokesperson and coalition-builder dedicated to sharing the message and model of the Drawdown Framework to the world.

With an interdisciplinary background in public policy, human rights, sustainable development, and environmental conservation, Chad works as a systems strategist to build a new, regenerative future with cascading benefits to human and planetary well-being. He is the lead author of the paper “Drawdown’s ‘System of Solutions’ Helps to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”, and speaks and writes widely on topics linking climate solutions to global challenges that benefit people and the planet.

Who attended?

Collaborative Collision: Climate Solutions featured presentations from members of the FSU and FAMU research community who have completed or are conducting research related to climate change, mitigation, and adaptation topics. Participants came from a variety of STEM, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities disciplines, united by their interest in solving one of our most urgent crises.