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Summary of the Discussion
The discussion kicked off with a brief introduction of our distinguished speaker, Professor Price by our amiable moderator Dr. Jason McSparren.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Byron Price works at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York as a Professor of public policy and administration. He was the Director of the Barbara Jordan Institute of Policy Research. Prof. Price has visited over 40 countries.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Dr. Jason J. McSparren is an educator, researcher, and administrator with a PhD. in Global Governance and Human Security from Massachusetts Boston.He is also a Pre-Doctoral Fellow (2017-18) for the West African Research Association (WARA).
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Dr. McSparren: Public Policy and Administration program. Dr. Price focuses Research on Social Public Policy. His research interest and some of the themes that he's covered, he is an extensive empirical work regarding the United States justice system with an important contributions to Public Policy issues such as prison privatization, Social justice issues school-to-prison pipelines, additionally his work covers a governance and International Development as well. And that's one of the topics that we're going to be talking about here today. Dr. Price is also known for his student mentorship and also as a philanthropist recently, Dr. Price led a group of 14 Suny College of the City University of New York students to a trip to South Africa where they covered six cities as part of a global public administrations course. Professor Price, called that the study the study abroad trip for the office of International Education and not only did he lead the students, but he also spearheaded a fundraising and donate a portion of his own salary raising more than $12,000 for the students to join him on this fantastic experience trip abroad.
Today, Dr. Price is here to talk with us about Clean Coal Technology in a presentation he titles Clean Coal and Sustainable Development: Harnessing Clean Coal technology to mitigate harmful emissions. As you all know coals are hydrocarbon fuel therefore, emit greenhouse gases as a result there have been efforts to create Clean Coal Technologies through a number of different processes. Coal is widely used around the world, especially in terms of the developing world. It is going to take time to phase out coal-fired electric plants and there a different research projects out there looking for ways Carbon Dioxide Removal which is termed CDR strategies in some of these strategies are called ‘Carbon Capture and Storage’ very often CCS strategies and these are emerging and that's we're going to hear a little bit about today. Some of these CDR methods are direct air caption enhanced weathering in carbon sinks where the carbon is extracted from the air and then relocated to the ground. Dr. Price is here to tell us about a process that removes the toxins from coal, toxins such as Arsenic and sulfur and Mercury so that the coal Burns cleaner and is an interim strategy in the pursuit of negative greenhouse gas emissions, which is one of the sustainable development goals and goals of countries around the world. So ladies and gentlemen in the audience. Can we please warmly welcome Dr. Byron Price to the green room today? Dr. Price hello.
Prof. Price: Hello Dr. MacSparren. Thanks for having me and thanks for the kind introduction and I have to correct just real quick. I raise $20,000 on behalf of the students to South Africa.
Dr. McSparren: That's wonderful. Okay, it's okay.
Prof. Price: Thanks for this great opportunity.
Dr. McSparren: Certainly.
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Top Comments
Enjoyed the Program. Great job Dr. Byron Price!- J.D Rolle
"Glad to be here”-Emmanuel Majidadi