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                                         <div class="modal-body">Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan is a Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and UNESCO Professor of Climate and Policy at TERI University, New Delhi, India.  Dr. Ramanathan discovered the greenhouse effect of halocarbons, particularly, CFCs in 1975.
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He has won many prestigious awards, such as the Volvo Prize, the Rossby Prize and the Tyler Prize, the highest rated environmental award given in the United States. In 2013 he was awarded the United Nations Top Environmental Prize.
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He was invited to share his thought about climate change in NCKU as the 2018 Tang Laureate for sustainability science. Using the topic ‘Bending the Curve’, he would like to raise the public awareness on climate change issue. His speech inspired us a lot, he not only introduced the idea of super pollutants such as HFCs, CH4 and black carbon, but also proposed the solutions for tackling climate change.
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After his speech, we briefly introduced our project to him. Although his work focuses on the impact of non-CO2 gases on climate change, he thinks that human beings need more alternative to tackle carbon dioxide emission problem, and our project may be one of the solutions, which makes us have faith in our project. He was glad to know that university students are working to deal with this issue.
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Through this meetup, we realized that ‘everyone is responsible to make the world better, no one should be excluded.’ Unity of the entire society is the most effective way to mitigate climate change. Therefore, we put more effort in our human practice activity by engaging with government entities, local enterprise, institution and the public.
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Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan is a Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and UNESCO Professor of Climate and Policy at TERI University, New Delhi, India.  Dr. Ramanathan discovered the greenhouse effect of halocarbons, particularly, CFCs in 1975.</p>
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<p class="hpcontent">He has won many prestigious awards, such as the Volvo Prize, the Rossby Prize and the Tyler Prize, the highest rated environmental award given in the United States. In 2013 he was awarded the United Nations Top Environmental Prize. </p>
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<p class="hpcontent">He was invited to share his thought about climate change in NCKU as the 2018 Tang Laureate for sustainability science. Using the topic ‘Bending the Curve’, he would like to raise the public awareness on climate change issue. His speech inspired us a lot, he not only introduced the idea of super pollutants such as HFCs, CH4 and black carbon, but also proposed the solutions for tackling climate change.</p>
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<p class="hpcontent">After his speech, we briefly introduced our project to him. Although his work focuses on the impact of non-CO2 gases on climate change, he thinks that human beings need more alternative to tackle carbon dioxide emission problem, and our project may be one of the solutions, which makes us have faith in our project. He was glad to know that university students are working to deal with this issue. </p>
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<p class="hpcontent">Through this meetup, we realized that ‘everyone is responsible to make the world better, no one should be excluded.’ Unity of the entire society is the most effective way to mitigate climate change. Therefore, we put more effort in our human practice activity by engaging with government entities, local enterprise, institution and the public.
 
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