Daniel Kammen Energy and Resources Group (Chair) Goldman School of Public Policy Department of Nuclear Engineering Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory University of California, Berkeley Former Science Envoy, United States Department of State Payne Institute: The Role of Nuclear in Addressing Climate Change, August 27, 2021 The Role of Nuclear in Addressing Climate Change
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Daniel Kammen
Energy and Resources Group (Chair)
Goldman School of Public Policy
Department of Nuclear Engineering
Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Former Science Envoy, United States Department of State
Payne Institute: The Role of Nuclear in Addressing Climate Change, August 27, 2021
The Role of Nuclear in Addressing Climate Change
2
NDC Commitments
to the Paris Accords
Needed Innovations
Paris, 2015:
2 degree
objective
IPCC, 2018:
1.5 degree
objective
The Needed Decarbonization Race, > 3%/year
“Recalibrating climate prospects”
Lovins, Ürge-Vorsatz, Mundaca, Kammen & Glassman
Environ. Res. Lett. 14, 120201 (2019)
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab55ab
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