Emissions
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Grunwald: Food and Land Use Generate One-Third of Global Emissions
“And at the same time, we're gonna have to reduce emissions from food and land, which is about a third of our emissions overall. We're gonna have to reduce it 75, 80%.”
Miller: The global shift is an emissions transition, not energy transition
“It's not really an energy transition. It's an emissions transition. The emissions is what we're trying to get at.”
Virwani: Real estate accounts for 30% of all emissions
“See, I think that like, yeah, I mean, 30, 30% of all emissions is really from real estate.”
Kann: AI for gigaton-scale emission reductions is harder than simple efficiency
“Of course, the world abounds with ways to use AI to do things more efficiently, but to really move the needle on like gigatons of emissions, I think is trickier.”
Loo: 30% shipping efficiency gains failed to lower net absolute emissions
“If you look at the sector from 2008, we've already reduced emissions by improving fuel savings and energy efficiency to the tune of 30%. Yet, because the trade volumes have gone up so much, net-net, we've not really reduced emissions.”
Horne: Binary geothermal plants release virtually zero atmospheric emissions
“Because the water never leaves, the geothermal water never leaves the heat exchanger, there's basically no emissions at all from the subsurface out into the atmosphere of the environment. The water stays in the pipe, goes back in the ground. It never sees the …”
Western Nations Faked Emission Reductions by Exporting Manufacturing to China
“China became part of it in 2002, and it's a clear relationship between when China joined and how its emission curve went up. Now, the problem is not that China's emission curve went up, but the fact the rest of the world thought they had reduced their emission…”
Global temperatures will rise for a century even if emissions stop
“It turns out if you stopped all emissions on day one, the climate will continue to drift, drift upwards for about a hundred years. I have written a bunch of papers on global warming. I've done this calculation. Other people have done this calculation. You know…”
Orum: 70% of Capricorn's portfolio emissions stem from just 20 companies
“What's interesting is that still about 70% of our emissions in our portfolio are attributable to about 20 companies.”
Hamilton: The IRA's Methane Fee Will Dramatically Cut Emissions
“There is one stick in this, which is a methane fee, a methane emission fee, which will be huge. That will have an enormous impact on emissions.”
Lacey: Global emissions fell by about 6% in 2020
“Emissions did actually fall by a lot in twenty-twenty, about six percent globally.”
Gordon: Meaningful oil cuts require a sum of incremental 2% solutions
“You know, between now and the day where we're wholly off this stuff,
We're going to need to start very carefully crafting the sum of these two percent solutions that add up to something meaningful, you know, like a 30% cut or a 50% cut in emissions.
But that, …”