Can Innovation Be The Solution?
Gordon Chisholm
Vice President Business Development > Branding & Marketing Strategy & Execution
When a report constitutes evidence of the world’s collective failure to avoid climate catastrophe, it underscores the vital role science has to play beyond diagnosis: creating treatment and prognosis. Of course we must mitigate global warming behavior, for example, by ramping up renewable energy, boosting energy efficiency, halting deforestation and curbing super pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). But even if we get to net zero emissions, think of the power of negative emission technology and behavior enabled by innovation?
?Afforestation, soil carbon sequestration, bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), direct air capture, carbon mineralization and ocean-based carbon removal concepts all have a potential role to play in the world’s negative carbon emission strategy, but we can only get there through innovation.
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Economist Espresso Article, Damage control: the IPCC’s new report, August 9 2021:
“Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN-backed body that collates scientific opinion, released the world’s most comprehensive assessment of the physical science behind climate change. Its report in 2013 heavily informed the Paris climate agreement two years later, with its commitment to keep global warming to “well below” 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to “pursue efforts towards 1.5°C”.
The IPCC now says the 1.5°C boundary will probably be breached within 20 years. It also states, for the first time, that climate change is “unequivocally” caused by humans. The Paris agreement requires countries to beef-up climate commitments at COP26, the UN climate summit which starts at the end of October. Optimists will hope the IPCC report spurs them on. But pessimists will look to current pledges, which remain unmet but could lead to a rise of significantly more than 2°C even if fulfilled, and the report as evidence of the world’s collective failure to avoid climate catastrophe”.
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