The document discusses the need to transition to clean energy sources to address climate change. It outlines a 3-step process of cleaning up electricity generation, electrifying everything, and eliminating waste. Currently, fossil fuels provide 85% of global energy despite impressive growth in solar and wind, which combined only provide 1.5% of total energy. To limit global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius by 2050, 90% of the world's electricity must come from low-carbon sources. The document calls for action to transition away from fossil fuels and implement more sustainable energy solutions.

1. Mind the Gap
SEPTEMBER 2016
Kirsty Gogan
Executive Director
Closing the Gap Between the
Analysis and the Narrative

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7. OVERVIEW OF THE 3-STEPS RESEARCH AND ANALYTIC PROCESS

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Climate
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How to solve

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1. Clean Up Electricity
2.Electrify Everything
2.a) Eliminate Waste
Climate
change
How to solve

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11. DESPITE IMPRESSIVE GROWTH, SOLAR AND WIND COMBINED PROVIDE JUST 1.5% OF
TOTAL GLOBAL ENERGY.
Shares of world demand met by different sources of energy in 2014.
Other RE includes geothermal, biomass, biofuels wave and tidal energy.
Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2015. Chart by Carbon Brief.
Rise in Renewables v Rise in Demand

12. The Scale of the Challenge
FOSSIL FUELS DOMINATE GLOBAL ENERGY SUPPLY, PROVIDING 85% OF THE TOTAL
World energy use by source, 1965-2014.
Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2015. Chart by Carbon Brief.

13. Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Nuclear includes uranium mining,
enrichment and fuel fabrication, plant construction, use, decommissioning and long-
term waste management.)

14. OVERVIEW OF THE 3-STEPS RESEARCH AND ANALYTIC PROCESS

15. To limit the world’s temperature increase
below 2°C in 2050 …​… 90% of the world’s
electricity must be low-carbon by 2050.
Source: World Energy Outlook 2014
International Energy Agency​

16. Thank
You
Kirsty Gogan
Energy for Humanity
@kirstygogan
www.energyforhumanity.org