Can Flying Be Green?

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
6:00pm — 7:00pm ET
Columbia University / virtual event

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Join Christopher de Bellaigue, author of Flying Green, along with Pierpaolo Cazzola, from the Center on Global Energy Policy, and Jeff McDaniel, founding member of the biofuel company Velocys, for a conversation exploring what it will take for a new generation of travelers to fly guilt free.

Acclaimed journalist and historian Christopher de Bellaigue is known for his reporting and books on the Middle East and environmental and ethical issues. In Flying Green, named one of the Financial Times’ books to read in 2023, he meets the inventors, visionaries, and entrepreneurs who are at the frontier of new technologies that will transform aviation as he searches for a way to fly green.

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Praise for Flying Green
“An exciting read that gives climate-minded travelers reason to hope that positive change is in the near future.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Everyone who gets on a plane and knows about the catastrophic threat posed by global heating asks themselves if there is a green way to fly. Christopher de Bellaigue sets out the options in this excellent book.” —Tony Juniper, environmentalist

Learn more and get your copy of Flying Green here

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Panelists
Christopher de Bellaigue, author of several books, including In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs, Rebel Land, Patriot of Persia, The Islamic Enlightenment, and The Lion House. He is a frequent contributor to the Economist, the New York Review of Books, and the Guardian.

Pierpaolo Cazzola, Global Research Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is also working with the institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and was recently appointed as an advisor by the Italian Ministry for Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility.

Jeff McDaniel, Vice President of New Projects at Velocys, and is a recognized leader in the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry. His current focus is leading the development of a woody biomass to SAF project in Natchez, MS which will produce SAF with a deeply negative carbon intensity score.

Nicholas Lemann (moderator), director of Columbia Global Reports and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School. He’s also a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several highly acclaimed books.