Ask EvC Anything

Join David & Ed for a special end-of-2024 Ask-Us-Anything episode dedicated to your questions.

Thanks to everyone who sent in your questions - we couldn't do it without you!

Show Notes:

(01:40) Direct Air Capture vs Point Source

(02:15) Is Carbon Capture Too Expensive?

(04:25) Doug Burgum: United States Future Interior Secretary

(05:45) What Is Carbon Capture And Storage – And How Can It Help Tackle the Climate Crisis?

(06:30) Do We Need to Change Our Behaviour to Reach Net Zero by 2050?

(08:50) China’s New Renewable Energy Plan

(10:54) “Scenario Trajectories and Temperature Outcomes”: Article by The International Energy Agency (IEA) 

(11:46) Could China’s CO2 Emissions Peak by 2025?

(14:56) Alberta’s Renewable Electricity Act

(18:44) The Suncor Energy Foundation (SEF)

(21:19) “Growth in Global Oil Demand Is Set to Slow Significantly by 2028”: Article by the IEA

(22:07) “Meeting the Emissions Cap”: Article by The Pembina Institute

(22:34) Pathways Alliance’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Foundational Project

(26:30) Canada Proposes to Back Oil-Sands Giants' Carbon-Capture Project, The Globe and Mail Reports

(27:04) How Exactly Does Carbon Dioxide Cause Global Warming?

(28:18) “Will Global Warming ‘Stop’ As Soon As Net-Zero Emissions Are Reached?”: Article by The World Economic Forum

(31:20) White Paper: Batteries Innovation Road Map 2035

(34:04) “Explained: The 1.5 C Climate Benchmark”: Article by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(36:39) How Much Human Activity Is Responsible for the Conditions That We Are Experiencing?

(37:00) Scientists Can Now See How Accurate Earlier Models Were at Projecting Future Changes

(39:56) Why Do Some People Call Climate Change an “Existential Threat”?

(44:28) Impacts of Future Climate Change on Arctic Terns

(45:55) “Climate Wars: The Fight For Survival as the World Overheats”: Book by Gwynne Dyer

A Holiday Treat: David Keith on the Metric System vs the 'Silly System'

About Your EvC Co-Hosts:

David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. She’s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

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