A Four-Zero Climate Solution

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4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Stabilizing our climate is going to take some hard truths – and hard numbers. “If you look at 1.5 degrees, it's about 13 years,” says Stanford’s Arun Majumdar. “If you look at 2 degrees, it’s 20 years. And after that, it’s zero.” We can fight back with the power of zero: a zero-carbon grid, zero-emission vehicles, zero-net energy buildings and zero-waste manufacturing. Whether through massive technological breakthroughs or deployment of existing technologies, powering these opportunities will require funding and policy changes. Can a four-zero solution lead to a low carbon-future? Guests: Hal Harvey, CEO, Energy Innovation, Author, Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy (Island Press, 2018) Kate Gordon, Fellow, Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy Arun Majumdar, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director at the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.2	Can getting down to zero save an overheated planet?
0:36.6	Climate One conversations with oil companies and
0:39.1	environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg
0:44.7	Dalton. If you want to keep the Earth's temperature increase below 2 degrees, Arun Majumdar has some numbers for you.
1:00.0	We have a budget of around 800 gigatons of CO2.
1:05.0	We are emitting about 40 gigatons of CO2 per year, roughly, globally.
1:10.0	So you do the math, If the emissions are flat,
1:12.6	we have about 20 years. And after that, it has to be zero. So that's the equation we have to
1:18.2	solve.
1:22.7	On today's program, we'll talk about how to solve that equation. But don't worry, there
1:26.7	won't be a test. And the only number you need to remember is zero.
1:30.8	A zero emissions electric grid, zero emission transportation, zero emission buildings, and zero waste manufacturing.
1:38.5	Getting to zero in those four areas could be the climate solution, but can we get everyone working on the same page?
1:44.8	While the problem is inherently global, the impacts are extraordinarily local. The impact
1:50.1	here in California right now is wildfires. It will be mudslides next year probably, whereas
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