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British Low Carbon Tech Policy
- 1. Low Carbon Technologies By: Tretyakov, Alex
- 2. How did the British Government handle that issue?
- 3. Ways carbon emission could be reduced • Providing an alternative to power plants • Electric vehicles • Renewable Energy
- 4. The Cause for Switching to Low Carbon Technologies • Temperatures Rising • Limited Resources
- 5. Vehicles • Transport is a major greenhouse gas emission in UK
- 6. Solution = Electric cars • Low Carbon Emission • Demand Less Resources WHY?
- 7. Power Plants • Emit huge amounts of CO2 • Need resources to run them such as coal
- 8. Solution • Hydroelectricity • Wind turbines • Solar Panels
- 9. Summary of the policy • “Between January and September this year, nearly 21,000 ULEVs were sold in the UK.” • ULEV (Ultra Low Emission Vehicles) • “Our ultimate goal is for virtually every car and van on the road to be zero emission by 2050.”
- 10. US Policy on Low Carbon Technologies • Wind energy is the fastest-growing renewable energy source in the US. In 2008, 42% of new power producing capacity brought online in the US was from wind.
- 11. Citation • "American Innovation." The Climate Group, Jan. 2010. Web. 4 Nov. 2015. <http://www.theclimategroup.org/_assets/files/american- innovation.pdf>. Direct quotes on slide 8 • "Carbon Plan." HM Government, 2015. Web. 4 Nov. 2015. <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attac hment_data/file/47621/1358-the-carbon-plan.pdf>. • Jones, Andrew, MP. "The Future of Business Mobility." Thanks to Businesses, the UK Is Europe's Fastest Growing Market for Electric Vehicles. The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders, 71 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2BN, London. 04 Nov. 2015. Gov.uk. Web. 04 Nov. 2015. <https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-future-of- business-mobility>.
Editor's Notes
- “Climate change is one of the greatest threats to both UK and global security and prosperity. There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is happening, and that it is very likely to be primarily the result of human activity. There is now almost 40% more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there was before the industrial revolution, a level not experienced for at least the last 800,000 years. Consequently, the global average temperature continues to rise, and 2000–09 was the warmest decade on record since at least the 1850s.”
- transport is a major contributor to the UK’s energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as other polluting emissions, with the majority of those emissions coming from the oil-based fuels we rely on for road transport.
- Petroleum is first taken out of the ground and then it undergoes the process of refining it (by heating it up), which also demands resources to heat the petroleum.
- Compared to the “no-policy” scenario, the “policy-low capacity” scenario would lead to $4.3 billion more in market revenues in the Midwest, while the “policy-high capacity” scenario would lead to more than $7 billion more in market revenues from 2010-2015. Michigan would experience more than $740 million in additional market revenues in the “policy-low capacity” scenario and more than $2.8 billion in the “policy-high capacity” scenario over the same period.