Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Tackling the Energy & Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century

"It's About Global Ethics and Global Security"

THINK DIFFERENT 

In the interview below, Grubb argues that tackling the energy and environmental problems of the 21st century requires three different domains of decision-making to be recognised and connected. These domains are: saticficing, optimising and transforming. Each domain involves different theoretical foundations, draws on different areas of evidence and implies different policies. For example, the theoretical foundations for each domain include behavioural, neoclassical and evolutionary economics respectively. Each is equally important.

Structural Inefficiency 
A lot of credit going towards unproductive uses that create asset bubbles. How do you get capital to flow into low carbon investments?

 "You have alot of capital just sitting around earning very, very little interest. When you look at the economics of low carbon investments .. will generate return over decades in the form of generating very low marginal cost of power."


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