Download to read offline
The Yes Agenda: Global Trends and the Pace of Change
- 1. The Yes Agenda GlobalTrends and the Pace of Change Tzeporah Berman, BA, MES, LLD Director, Stand.Earth Former Co-director Greenpeace International Climate Program Adjunct Professor York University Author of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge @tzeporah
- 8. • “No morethan one-third of proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed prior to 2050 if the world is to achieve the 2 °C goal” • -International Energy Agency, 2013 • “vast majority of reserves are unburnable if global temperature rises are to be limited to below 2C.” • -Mark Carney, Governor Bank of England, 2014
- 11. A Climate forChange • In the past 10 years we have gone from 5 countries with climate and renewable energy policies to 168 • Since 2004, the annual investment in renewable energy capacity has increased by more than 800% • “The race for renewable has passed a turning point. The world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than oil, natural gas and coal combined.” Bloomberg New Energy Finance, April 2015 • Price of renewable energy is plummeting
- 18.
- 21. “Will the paceof energy transformation be determined by the inertia of incumbents, or speed of innovators? It's our choice.” — Amory Lovins
- 26. France to banall new oil and gas exploration in renewable energy drive -The Independent (June 24, 2017) ‘Ecological transition’ minister says law will be passed later this year
- 27. Shell to installelectric chargers at UK petrol stations
Editor's Notes
- #10 Animate Growing movement alignment (Lofoten, Trump, Paris) Market conditions and project vulnerability (Big investors, capex ex decline in tar sands) Infrastructure wins mainstreaming (Minnesota DoC and Line 3 - Colombia and France and managed decline policy) Demand side momentum (Renewable boom, ICE’s globally and in China) Urgency of climate action vis a vis climate catastrophes
- #27 Decades of infrastructure battles are finally translating into the kind of supply side policy that is necessary: -France - Slide 3 - headline -Costa Rica -With others starting to grapple with the fact that demand side action won’t cut it: Canada/Alberta (PCCF, ACP), Norway
- #30 Grandma story – scale of change possible in our lifetime