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LASP Panel April 14

LASP Panel April 14. Climate Change Myths LASP 1234 Innovation Drive (East Campus, just north of Colorado, east of 30th) 7 PM Info from eop-mail@lasp.colorado.edu. Universities and Law Schools as Incubators: Energy and Environmental Problem Solving.

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LASP Panel April 14

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  1. LASP Panel April 14 • Climate Change Myths • LASP 1234 Innovation Drive (East Campus, just north of Colorado, east of 30th) • 7 PM • Info from eop-mail@lasp.colorado.edu

  2. Universities and Law Schools as Incubators: Energy and Environmental Problem Solving Lakshman Guruswamy, Professor of International Environmental Law April 14 5:30-6:30 Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom Reception to follow

  3. Energy and Environmental Treaties A global climate problem requires global cooperation.

  4. Treaty compliance www.iea.org/G8/2008/G8_IEAwork_2008.pdf International Energy Agency work for the G8, meeting in Japan. Accept the goal of stabilizing atmospheric CO2 at 450 ppmV by 2050, with a temp. change of +2 deg C, by limiting emissions to half those of some baseline year.

  5. Meaning- To reach the goal of half 2010 values by 2050, we need to do ALL of a number of steps. What will those steps cost?

  6. Low hanging fruit Biggest change in CO2 for fewest dollars. End use efficiency actually saves dollars! CCS and biofuels are the most expensive, ineffective means.

  7. What price carbon? • How far do you want to go on that graph? A 30% reduction can be bought at $40/ton of CO2, 45% at $200-400/ton. • Sets the scale for a tax system.

  8. What to build? In addition to efficiency savings, we need to build lots of clean energy sources to replace what we shut down. Just for electricity---

  9. Meaning The world would need a vast acceleration of expensive projects. ALL of them. Could we, should we do this?

  10. THIS week-see the posted schedule Monday-climate treaties. Google or otherwise read about the Kyoto Protocol, and the recent Copenhagen meeting (Dec. 2009). What was meant to happen, what did happen? Wednesday-The IPCC, read Summary for Policy Makers www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf Friday-The carbon budget- mitigation wedges. //cmi.princeton.edu/resources/pdfs/carbon_plan.pdf (Socolow & Pacala, Sci. Am. 2006) Video://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/flash_intro.php

  11. 1. (12)Look at the array of ‘capacity additions’ • in Figure 5 of the “IEA Work for the G8” • www.iea.org/G8/2008/G8_IEAwork_2008.pdf , • especially the list on the right of the figure, which are • ANNUAL things to build. The plan is to do ALL • of these. Do you think that the world has the resources • and the guts to do this? Our US share of the steps • would be about one fifth, since we emit about one fifth • of the global CO2. Do you think our nation could build one fifth of the stuff listed in this figure? Each year? Starting now?

  12. 2. (8) What is a ‘carbon wedge’? Describe the logic behind approaching what we might do about climate change using such wedges. A sketch would likely be helpful, as you pretend to be explaining this to someone unfamiliar with the idea.

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