What's Next? Fostering the Next Generation of Energy Security Conference
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What's Next? Fostering the Next Generation of Energy Security Conference
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Join ASP and our panelists in a discussion about the next generation of energy technology and climate policy.
In order to prevent the worst effects of climate change, total warming must remain under a rise of two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial baseline.
Leaders of the G7 and the G20 have repeatedly stated they intend to meet that target. However, thelatest IPCC report, released in April 2014, showed that in order to even have a 50% chance of meeting that 2 degree limit, total global emissions will have to peak around 2020 and will have to drop to around 50% below today’s levels by 2050.
Such a global effort would likely require developed countries like the U.S. to reduce emissions to around 80% below 2005 levels. This will not be easy.
No major country has a plan to meet this target. There is a clear disconnect between what we have committed to do (keep temperatures at a safe level) and the means with which we will do it.
That means we have to start thinking: How can we get to this target while remaining economically strong? In other words: What is the next generation of energy?
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