Fwd: Canada: Low-carbon energy revolution needed to prevent disruptions, IEA agency says - cites costs, melting permafrost & a 6 C increase in temperature
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From: Cory Morningstar <elle-pro...@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:18:08 -0400
Subject: Canada: Low-carbon energy revolution needed to prevent
disruptions, IEA agency says - cites costs, melting permafrost & a 6 C
increase in temperature
To: P Mac <corre...@gmail.com>
International Energy Agency pushes false solutions such as nuclear & CCS .
Low-carbon energy revolution needed to prevent disruptions, agency says
By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News September 24, 2010
International Energy Agency deputy executive director RichardJones speaks
with Mike De Souza of Postmedia News.
Video:
http://www.canada.com/technology/carbon+energy+revolution+needed+prevent+dis
ruptions+agency+says/3570361/story.html
OTTAWA - Consumers, industries and governments must scale up efforts toward
a low-carbon energy revolution centred around renewable power to prevent
economic and environmental catastrophe, a senior official with the
International Energy Agency said Thursday.
In an interview with Postmedia News, Richard Jones, the deputy executive
director of the France-based agency which advises governments on energy
policy, said consumers will see prices going through the roof based on
current trends unless the world stabilizes its energy system.
Jones, a former U.S. ambassador from 1996 to 2008 in Israel, Kuwait,
Kazakhstan and Lebanon, said it's in Canada's interests to have a stable
world energy system.
"Whether or not you're concerned about global warming and carbon dioxide,
you should be concerned about what that means for prices, what that means
for security," said Jones. "I know that Canada is a net exporter of fossil
fuels, but your people still have to buy oil and gas. You are consumers as
well and those prices will go through the roof (based) on current trends.
There will be a lot more uncertainty in the world, a lot more potential
disruption of your markets, either for oil and gas or for other commodities
and goods that you sell."
Jones made the comments after meeting in Ottawa with government officials
from Natural Resources Canada to explain the agency's recent report, Energy
Technology Perspectives 2010, which was released in July.
The report calls for a major shift toward a low-carbon economy, including
investments in nuclear plants as well as technology to bury greenhouse gas
emissions from coal-fired electricity plants. It also recommends an
unprecedented level of investments by government in areas of research,
development and deployment of new low-carbon technologies over the next
decade, that would increase investments by up to five times more than
current levels.
It also highlights the potential link between a spike in oil prices and the
recent global economic slowdown.
"The way things are going, the world energy system, 40 years from now, will
not be stable unless we develop these new technologies," Jones said. "The
sooner we develop them, the lower risk we have for disruptions in supply for
price volatility as well as for the threat of global warming."
The agency's report also calls for a significant shift toward electric and
hybrid vehicles so that they make up about half of the global fleet.
Its recommended scenario calls for global greenhouse gas emissions to be cut
in half by 2050, noting that this goal would be much more expensive to reach
without immediate action. Jones said the costs of inaction could also result
in global temperatures rising by six degrees Celsius by the end of the
century.
"To put that in perspective, that's enough to melt the permafrost and
there's an awful lot of carbon and other greenhouse gases trapped in the
permafrost and once the permafrost starts melting, then nobody knows what
will happen," he said.
"It could get ugly, and the point is that we don't want really want to find
out. We think that the risks are too great. So we are really trying to keep
the global rise in temperature to two degrees or less, so that's the basis
for our scenario."
http://www.canada.com/technology/carbon+energy+revolution+needed+prevent+dis
ruptions+agency+says/3570361/story.html
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