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Navroz Dubash: Western Green Industrial Subsidies Risk Leaving Developing Nations Behind
“They're going to be basically getting the crumbs from this table of green industrial subsidies. So. We might be in this dilemma where the most aggressive things to solve climate change might actually make for a more unfair world.”
Unmetered Farm Power Let Indian Industries Steal Electricity and Hide Losses
“What happened in India is that they said we'll give free power to farmers. The farmers stopped being metered, right? And when the farmers stopped being metered, you didn't know what was happening to the electricity. And so industry started conniving with the l…”
India Directs Only 3% of Its Energy R&D Budget Toward Renewables
“So energy R&D is forty-five billion. Right? A hundred and fifty million of that goes into clean energy R&D. A third of it goes into fossil fuels. The rest is nuclear. Over all these years, Three percent is going into clean energy and going into renewable energ…”
Dubash: Power sector reform fails when treated as technical rather than political
“The problem is that you were treating this as a technical problem. It's not a technical problem. It's a political problem.”
Dubash: Solar power costs 2 rupees per unit, 4 with storage
“So for solar, the lowest you can get these days is around two rupees. Right. Now it gets complicated because they're starting to say, well, what about solar and storage? So solar and storage ends up being around four rupees, but it's not enough storage to come…”
Current Global Climate Policies Put Earth on Track for 2.6°C Warming
“Right now we're on track for somewhere around 2.6.”
IPCC 1.5°C Climate Models Mathematically Require Unproven Carbon Dioxide Removal Tech
“One, when the IPCC runs these models, and we say politically we want to try and keep to a world of 1.5 warming, the models don't close. You can't do it without a whole bunch of assumptions around carbon dioxide removal.”
Dubash: Climate entrepreneurs should avoid the carbon offsets market
“And the half point is perhaps stay away from the offsets market.”
Earth Is Warmer Now Than at Any Point in 100,000 Years
“We are now, the earth is now warmer on average than at any point it's been in the last 100,000 years.”
Dubash: Solar panel costs fell 80% and wind costs fell 50% over the last decade
“So our solar panel costs fell 80% during this last decade, right? Battery costs fell considerably as well. Wind costs fell 50%.”
Dubash: Indian state power grid losses range from 15% to 30%
“We now have this measure called aggregate technical and commercial losses i.e. Theft, and that can vary from 15 to 30% across states.”
Dubash: Coal generation costs 3.6 rupees per unit, new plants reach 5
“So the average is now 3.6. After, after depreciation, a new plant is closer to five.”
Dubash: Nuclear Fission Reactors Take 10 to 12+ Years in India
“The gestation time for a fission reactor is on the order of 10, 10, 12 years in India. It's often longer.”
Governments Approve IPCC Summary Reports on a Line-by-Line Basis
“This isn't just a research report because by the end of it, governments approved this report on a line by line basis. They approved the summary of it. So they literally put up on the screen one sentence at a time. Governments will comment on it, suggest modifi…”