REWIND: Drawdown / Solving Climate Change

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to cutting carbon pollution, where do we start? Today’s solutions are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve family planning, shut down coal-fired power plants, or expand solar energy. Some countries have taken concrete steps to replace fossil fuels with nuclear, hydro and renewable energy, but the absence of U.S. climate leadership is causing heads of state to ease off their goals. What are the most impactful steps we can take individually and collectively to reduce our impact on the planet? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Part One Kate Brandt, Sustainability Officer, Google Jonathan Foley, Executive Director, Project Drawdown Lois Quam, U.S. Chief Executive Officer, Pathfinder International Part Two Sonia Aggarwal, Vice President, Energy Innovation Joshua Goldstein, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, American University Staffan Qvist, Energy Consultant Part One of this program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 11, 2019, and originally aired on August 2, 2019. Part Two was recorded at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on January 17, 2019, and originally aired on February 3, 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Who's moving ahead and who's lagging behind in the clean energy race?
0:12.4	Climate One Conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,
0:18.5	the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.
0:22.2	I'm Greg Dalton.
0:24.3	On today's show, we revisit a pair of conversations from last year about reducing carbon pollution,
0:30.0	from individual action to national and international policy.
0:34.0	The Paris Agreement, we all thought it was a step in the right direction.
0:38.3	It's a step, everything's a step in the right direction.
0:40.3	The question is you're getting there fast enough to head off this catastrophe.
0:44.3	Joshua Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at American University
0:49.3	and co-author with Stefan Kvist of the recent book,
0:52.3	A Bright Future, How Some Countries Have
0:54.5	Solved Climate Change and the rest can follow.
0:57.7	Part of tackling climate change is the dramatic decrease in the price of clean energy
1:01.8	technologies.
1:03.1	We're seeing some numbers that I think are kind of nuts.
1:07.2	Solar is 90% cheaper than it was 10 years ago.
1:10.5	Wind is 70% cheaper. Batteries are 80% cheaper than they were.
1:15.3	Sonia Agarwal is vice president of the consulting firm Energy Innovation. We'll hear from her,
1:20.8	along with Joshua Goldstein and Stefan Quist, later in today's show. First, a discussion about where to
1:27.1	begin when addressing the climate challenge.
1:29.8	The one thing you have to remember about climate change is there isn't one thing about climate change.
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