pre-reads
pre-read materials and presentation slides
Sunday, June 26 – Climate Change: What are the Threats at 1:00 p.m.
Slides
Understanding Extremes and their Climate Connection
Gabriel Vecchi
Sunday, June 26 – Decarbonization and the Global Energy Transition at 1:30 p.m.
Recommended
Mission Net-Zero America: The nation-building path to a prosperous, net-zero emissions economy
Joule
Net Zero by 2050 – A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector – Summary for Policy Makers
International Energy Agency
Optional
IPCC Climate Change 2022 Mitigation of Climate Change – Summary for Policy Makers
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Net Zero by 2050 – A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector – (full 224-page report)
International Energy Agency
Witnessing for the Middle to Depolarize the Climate Change Conversation
Rob Socolow
The Speed of the Energy Transition Gradual or Rapid Change
World Economic Forum white paper
Chris’s slides
Decarbonization and the Global Energy Transition
Sunday, June 26 – Corporate Implementation of Energy Transition Goals at 6:30 p.m.
Recommended
Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation – The Hydrogen Factor
International Renewable Energy Agency
Monday, June 27 – Energy Transition and the Electricity Sector at 9:00 a.m.
Slides
Clean Electricity and the Road to Net-Zero
Jesse Jenkins
Monday, June 27 – Future of Wind: Technological, Business, and Policy Perspectives at 11:00 a.m.
Recommended
Wind Power: Energy Technology Distillate no. 5
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Monday, June 27 – Decision Processes and Strategies for Innovation at 1:45 p.m.
Recommended
Heads in the Sand: Why We Fail to Foresee and Contain Catastrophe
Foreign Affairs
Seeing Is Believing: Understanding & Aiding Human Responses to Global Climate Change
Daedalus
WG III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
IPCC AR6 WGIII
Deep Decarbonization as a Risk Management Challenge
RAND
Slides
Elke’s slides
Robert’s slides
Monday, June 27 – Emerging Opportunities: The Hydrogen Investment Case at 3:45 p.m.
Recommended
Emerging Opportunities
Investment Decision Analysis: Early-Mover Hydrogen Hub
Chris Greig
Chris’s slides
Mobilizing Energy Transition Capital
Tuesday, June 28 – Model-based Synthesis and Analysis of Renewable Energy Technologies at 3:45 p.m.
Recommended
Advanced Biofuels of the Future: Atom-Economical or Energy-Economical?
Joule 2
Optional
A Generalized Framework for the Assessment of Solar Fuels Technologies
Energy & Environmental Science
Analysis of Alternative Bioenergy with Carbon Capture Strategies: Present and Future
Energy & Environmental Science
Tuesday, June 28 – Delivering Sustainable Change: The Challenge of Climate Action at 5:30 p.m.
Recommended
From Ambition to Reality
Worley and Andlinger Center