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Topic - Energy and climate solutions (part 1)

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This week, we will assess potential solutions to rising global energy demand, in light of the looming climate crisis.  Questions to be addressed include:

  • How tightly is energy demand correlated with economic growth?  This is critically important because we want much more rapid economic growth in China, India, Sub-Saharan and in so many parts of the developing world.  But assuming that we have policies in place to make such growth more sustaianble -- a stretch, I realize, in many places -- this still implies an unprecedented increase of world energy demand.
  • TO what degree can effieciency reduce the overall  


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