Exploring the most successful policies around the world for solving Climate Change by targeting and cutting CO2e emissions. With Robbie Orvis, author of Designing Climate Solutions: A policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy. Orvis is Director of Energy Policy Design at Energy Innovations.
Fifty percent of all greenhouse gasses come from just seven countries. This is a presentation of the best policies for cutting those emissions and stopping global warming.
In the first episode of this series we learned who the biggest emitters are. In the second, Dr. Francis taught us how those emissions are warming the planet and disrupting the global climate systems.
In this video we’ll explore the most successful policies for targeting and cutting emissions that are in place around the world. And who better to guide us than the person who wrote the book on the subject, Robbie Orvis. [Director of Energy Policy Design, Energy Innovations]
Designing Climate Solutions is an accessible tool for examining all the good work being done to tackle climate change. In it, Orvis and his team analyzed every type of emissions reduction policy around the world to figure out which are most effective. Their premise is simple: to solve this crisis we need to learn from each other what works best as quickly as possible. It was a huge inspiration and help for me in putting this series together so it’s great to be able to hear from Robbie directly.
Generating electricity through the combustion of coal and methane natural gas is currently responsible for the most emissions around the world. There are two main policies to encourage utilities to invest in wind and solar energy production: feed-in tariffs and renewable energy tax credits.
And where we’re going is to an electrify everything strategy to take advantage of all the renewable electricity we’ll soon be generating. The main fossil fuel consumer in the United States is now the transportation sector. So far, the primary tool for governments to lower gasoline consumption, cut emissions, and increase investment in new technologies, like electric vehicles, has been a vehicle performance standard. This sets a minimum limit on the miles per gallon a manufacturer’s entire fleet of vehicles must average.
Video produced by: TDC YouTube channel
