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Landmark Report Summarizing the Critical Role of Energy Technologies in Addressing Climate Change Released
On May 22, 2007, the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program released a landmark report that describes the role energy technologies could play in addressing climate change. This new report, Global Energy Technology Strategy Program Addressing Climate Change: Phase 2 Findings from an International Public-Private Sponsored Research Program, summarizes nine years' worth of research. It examines six key technologies that could cost-effectively eliminate tens to hundreds of billions of tons of greenhouse gases over the course of the century and, through large-scale commercial deployment, reduce the cost of stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases by trillions of dollars. The technologies include both emerging and established systems:
- Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
- Biotechnology and Biomass
- Hydrogen Energy and other Advanced Transportation Technology Systems
- Nuclear Power
- Wind and Solar Power
- End-Use Energy Technologies
The Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, with both public and private sponsorship, investigates the potential role of energy technologies in addressing the challenge of global climate change. The program has profoundly influenced national and international dialogues about how to best address the challenge posed by climate change. Much of the research that underpins the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program utilized the unique world-class capabilities found only at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which has been managed by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy since 1965.
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Jae Edmonds, Joint Global Change Research Institute, was a lead author in the Fourth Assessment Report from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Approved on May 4 in Bangkok, Thailand, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change represents years of work by IPCC Working Group III. In their contribution, Jae and his co-authors describe the role of technology in addressing climate and present technological options that can be put into place to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Jae was a lead author for chapter 2, called Framing Issues. The Fourth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2007, builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new knowledge gained since the Third Assessment.
Jim Dooley was appointed to the Program Committee for the Ninth International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies. The GHGT conference series is the premier international symposium for the technical community focused on carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies, and is coordinated through the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme. The GHGT-9 conference will be held Nov. 16-20, 2008, in Washington D.C., with major sponsorship provided by DOE. These conferences are held every two years in the programme's member countries, and rotate between North America, Europe and Asia. Jim is a senior staff scientist located at the Joint Global Change Research Institute.
Events
Workshops
GTSP 2009 Annual Meeting. The 2009 annual meeting of the Battelle Global Energy Technology Strategy Program (GTSP), Phase III, was held May 27-28, 2009, in Washington, DC. For additional information, please contact Jae Edmonds at 301-314-6749, or jae@pnl.gov.
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