Debating the New IPCC Report: Hellish or Hopeful?
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
For two years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been working on a new analysis about global emissions pathways. The report was released this week — and the conclusion is pretty dire.
Or is it actually more hopeful than it appears?
This week, we’ll discuss the IPCC’s findings, debate the tone, and dissect media coverage of the report.
Then, Orsted, the Danish mega-energy producer, is buying a leading American offshore wind developer. What does it say about the coming rush of offshore activity?
And finally, over to biofuels. President Trump is asking the EPA to lift restrictions on higher ethanol-gasoline blends in the summer. Farmers love it. The oil industry hates it. What was the political calculus?
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| 0:31.8 | discussions on energy, clean tech and the environment. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Stephen Lacy, welcome. |
| 0:36.2 | So we asked a pretty simple question last week. Are we making progress? And just a few days later, a panel of international experts gave a simple answer. No. The IPCC just issued another clear update to the climate |
| 0:56.0 | picture. We are only 12 years away from locking in extreme warming and we're not even |
| 1:01.2 | close, not even remotely close to slashing climate pollution in the way |
| 1:04.9 | we need to. |
| 1:06.1 | So this week, the dire state of the planet, according to a group of the world's most prominent |
| 1:10.0 | scientists. |
| 1:11.1 | I promise, I promise you will find some areas of optimism in that conversation. |
| 1:16.4 | Then Orstead, the Danish mega energy producer, is buying a leading American offshore wind |
| 1:21.0 | developer. What does it say about the coming rush of offshore activity |
| 1:24.6 | in this country? |
| 1:26.1 | And finally over to biofuels, President Trump is asking the EPA to lift restrictions on |
| 1:30.4 | higher ethanol gasoline blends in the summer. The farmers love it, the oil |
| 1:34.8 | industry hates it, and debate rages about the public health impact. Welcome to |
| 1:40.3 | the gang. Hope you all are settled in after our live show last week. |
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