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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Michael Liebreich, a leading global expert on clean energy and transportation, discusses the significance of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and IPCC's report, the importance of staying below two degrees, and the role of exponential technologies in transitioning to renewables.

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0:00.0	There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future.
0:06.0	The A16Z podcast is an exception.
0:09.0	It takes you straight to the innovators behind new materials, data centers, self-driving cars, even electric boats,
0:15.5	eavesdrop on the future with the A16Z podcast. Hi, I'm Azimazar, and you're listening to Exponential View, a weekly
0:36.5	podcast in which I explore all the ways our world is changing under the force of
0:40.2	technology. My next guest, Michael Lebrike, is a world authority on clean energy
0:45.4	and the transformation of the transportation sector. Now if you're a first time
0:49.8	listener you might want to know that this second season of the Exponential View podcast is all about the political economy of technology.
0:55.0	In previous episodes I spoke to economists, investors, entrepreneurs and policy makers shaping the future of society and technology.
1:03.0	So you might want to browse through the archives and subscribe to receive a new mind expanding conversation each week.
1:09.0	Now to today's podcast, our guest is Michael Lebrike, a world-recognized expert in clean energy and transportation.
1:15.0	He was most recently on the board of Transport for London.
1:18.0	He founded the number one data and analytics company focusing on clean energy, new energy finance all the way back in 2004.
1:27.0	It was a time when very few people believed clean energy was really a thing.
1:31.0	I was lucky enough to meet Michael back then and became an early investor in the business which was ultimately acquired by Bloomberg.
1:37.0	I start my conversation with Michael trying to understand how he began his journey into clean energy.
1:43.0	So at the time in 1995 I was working for a news agency.
1:47.0	It was associated press television.
1:50.0	It's now been amalgamated with some other things. It's APTN and it was just a news story
1:56.7	that this very charismatic activist Ken Sarawehuer had been protesting the pollution caused by shells activities or the
2:08.8	oil extraction and then various other sorts of things going on in the in the
2:15.4	the on the agoni lands in the delta and but at the time I don't want to say that
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