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Technology revolution needed to save the planet
July 9, 2008 - 05:11 PM
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Speaking in Japan ahead of the G8 meeting of energy ministers there this weekend, International Energy Agency (IEA) executive director Nobuo Tanaka warned on Friday that a technological revolution is the only way to solve the problem of climate change.
In calling for industry and governments to embrace new technologies that can halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Tanaka said the total cost would be of the order of $45 trillion (£23 trillion), which equates to 1.1 per cent of global GDP over that period.
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According to the report, inaction will lead to a 70 per cent rise in oil consumption by 2050 and an increase in average global temperatures by as much as 6 per cent.
If the threat of ever-increasing extreme weather events, including more catastrophic hurricanes and massive costal flooding, isn’t enough to force a change from G8 leaders, then the choice of which gadget to buy or car to drive will become increasingly irrelevant.
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/future-tech/technology-revolution-needed-to-save-the-planet-385085?src=su
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Rhiya Trivedi
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Re: Technology revolution needed to save the planet
July 16, 2008 - 01:16 PM
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Maybe it's not as much a technology revolution as a policy revolution?
Check out Greenhouse Development Rights, the latest [and possibly the most promising and fair] of the burden sharing programs from the guys at EcoEquity!
The first policy strategy that takes third world development into full consideration, all the while operating on ratifications made at the UNFCCC and IPCC.
Watch the presentation on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-HdCZ0ESQ
Or download the full PowerPoint (with notes) and learn about it for yourself:
http://www.ecoequity.org/GDRs/
Very exciting if you are interested in sustainable development and concerned about the ongoing pointing of fingers at developing nations!
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