Instead of just "upgrading and renovating," John Sterman decided the "incremental cost of going deeper and doing a retrofit" was the right move.
"Assuming biofuels are carbon neutral may worsen irreversible impacts of climate change before benefits accrue."
"The effect of climate change is an enormous stress to many supply chains of companies and not just companies that are making physical products."
En-ROADS has been used by over 300,000 people, through one-on-one demos, group workshops, or negotiation skills-building exercises.
"Those with fossil resources seek to boost production and delay action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions."
For offsets to be legitimate, they have to meet four criteria: Carbon storage, verifiable, immediate, and long-lasting, said John Sterman.
"For years we've known that the pledges and promises under the UN framework convention process, the Paris process, are insufficient."
Though emissions continue to grow at worrisome levels, a reversal … remains possible.
"It would take about 20 years before we got to 90 percent electric. That's just too long to meet our climate goals."
"Building this immense LNG infrastructure will lock the world into continued reliance on fossil fuels and continued climate damage for decades."
