How the Climate Spent its Summer
09/28/21 • 61 min
David, Sara and Ed unpack what moved the dial on climate and energy this summer. They also look at this week's climate and energy news and preview what's to come on this season of Energy vs Climate.
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@1:12 Sustainable Energy Development Masters Program at the University of Calgary
@3:30 Energy within Environmental Constraints - Harvard Massive Online Open Course
@6:37 Executives from Exxon, Shell, BP and others are being called to testify in Congress
@7:39 Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
@7:45 Drilled Podcast
@12:58 Harvard University pledges to divest from fossil fuels
David on Divestment
@17:41 Cost of financing for coal
Coal financing costs surge as investors opt for renewable energy
@20:55
Work begins on 3.3 GW solar-CSP project linked to 500 MW of storage, in Qinghai
China pledges to stop building new coal energy plants abroad
@27:13 Heat Impacts
Extreme, deadly heat in Canada is going to come back, and worse. Will we be ready?
Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas (David is a co-author)
Relationship between season of birth, temperature exposure, and later life wellbeing
@35:25 2021 IPCC Report
@35:30 The Environmentalist’s Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis by Arno Kopecky
@39:42 US EV sales data
Norway bans gas car sales in 2025, but trends
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David, Sara and Ed unpack what moved the dial on climate and energy this summer. They also look at this week's climate and energy news and preview what's to come on this season of Energy vs Climate.
- - -
@1:12 Sustainable Energy Development Masters Program at the University of Calgary
@3:30 Energy within Environmental Constraints - Harvard Massive Online Open Course
@6:37 Executives from Exxon, Shell, BP and others are being called to testify in Congress
@7:39 Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
@7:45 Drilled Podcast
@12:58 Harvard University pledges to divest from fossil fuels
David on Divestment
@17:41 Cost of financing for coal
Coal financing costs surge as investors opt for renewable energy
@20:55
Work begins on 3.3 GW solar-CSP project linked to 500 MW of storage, in Qinghai
China pledges to stop building new coal energy plants abroad
@27:13 Heat Impacts
Extreme, deadly heat in Canada is going to come back, and worse. Will we be ready?
Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas (David is a co-author)
Relationship between season of birth, temperature exposure, and later life wellbeing
@35:25 2021 IPCC Report
@35:30 The Environmentalist’s Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis by Arno Kopecky
@39:42 US EV sales data
Norway bans gas car sales in 2025, but trends
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Coal is grabbing headlines – China has pledged to stop financing new coal plants abroad, the Liberals campaigned on a promise to ban thermal coal exports, and the Alberta government backtracked on a plan to open up the foothills and mountains to mining. Metallurgical coal is also under fire with a global push for carbon-free steel. So what is the future for coal in China, Canada and the world more broadly? What role can Canadian LNG play in displacing China coal-fired electricity, and what does the experience of coal contraction globally tell us about the future for other fossil resources?
On Episode 22 of Energy vs Climate David, Sara, Ed, and special guest Edward Cunningham, Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative, mine for answers.
EPISODE NOTES
@2:34 Kerry Lines up Pledges to Scrub Emissions from Carbon Heavy Industries
@4:34 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 goes to climate modellers
2014's Nobel prize for blue LED
@7:49 Not coming to a road near you any time soon - Self-driving cars
@9:13 Mining looks to electric, autonomous vehicles to reduce costs and improve efficiency
@11:17 Coal timeline graphic (pg. 52) + EvC Youtube version
@15:02 Coal in China
@24:29 Belt-and-road news
@24:57 China’s Global Power Database tracks power plants financed by Chinese foreign direct investment and/or China's two global policy banks
@31:20 Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit
@37:40 IEA World Energy Outlook 2021 (Coal plant age at retirement)Contributions by different countries/regions to CO2
@41:57 Canadian LNG to displace Chinese coal-fired electricity?
Pembina Institute on LNG
@47:22 Global Liquefied Natural Gas Expansion Exceeds Demand 1for Coal-to-gas Switching in Paris Compliant Pathways
@50:00 Carbon tariffs and Met Coal
@54:25 CCUS in China
@57:54 China’s largest department capture project is a global minnow
EvC Episode 19: Carbon Capture
@58:30 What coal tell us about the future for other fo
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