The Need for Public-Private Collaboration to drive Climate Solutions

10/20/2015

On October 20-21, 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry convened the Secretary’s Climate and Clean Energy Investment Forum focusing on investments targeting clean energy, energy efficiency, and climate change in the developing world.

Jeremy Grantham participated with Secretary Kerry in the session "Fireside Chat: The Need for Public-Private Collaboration to drive Climate Solutions" (watch an excerpt below).

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Rosemary Jones

6/13/2016 07:13:04 pm

Please promote a UN Climate Response Program to restore reflectivity and shading wherever possible, properly paying the poorest people to do much of the work

Loss of reflectivity accounts for about half annual warming and can be mitigated separately.

Please email for details of this strategy and climate technologies.

Andy Kadir-Buxton link

1/20/2019 09:21:53 am

The world's first self-funding near-zero CO2 plan can be seen at: http://www.kadir-buxton.com/near-zero-co2-plan

Paul Ehrlich

3/11/2020 08:40:58 am

"Running Out Of Resources"
by Jeremy Grantham

Getting Used to Lower Growth and Higher Prices

... we are simply running out of everything at a dangerous rate. We apparently have trouble processing numeric issues of this kind, and this missing faculty will cause considerable grief. We do not understand the implications of exponential or compound growth rates: the main implication being that they are impossible to sustain.

No better example of resource limitation in the face of both denial and strong efforts can be found than U.S. oil production. As is well known, we have been on the steep down slope of production since 1974 despite our best attempts to “Drill, baby, drill!” The largest oil discovery in the Gulf in the last 20 years will keep our engines running for a mere 41 days. Nothing we do can reverse the decline, and drilling our reserves faster has been described as “oil independence through more rapid exhaustion of our reserves!” Coal reserves of the highest quality – anthracite – are basically mined out everywhere, and the second choice – bituminous coal – has probably also passed its peak. All attempts to maintain the growth of total hydrocarbon output must now depend on sub-bituminous coal, lignite (which is a little bit better than burning rock, but not much), and tar sands, which are themselves increasingly energy- and water-intensive to exploit.

The Need for Public-Private Collaboration to drive Climate Solutions

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