In other words, the disintermediation will start to bear significant fruit.
The urgency of the situation is heightened by the fact that current energy demand projections are likely incorrect, and don’t account for the vast increase in demand we’ll see as a result of the projected population increase of four billion people.. Coal is contributing not only to electricity generation, but to industrial emissions as well, and unfortunately, the reality is we don’t really know what trajectory we’re on with temperature increase and the climate emergency.The International Energy Agency modelling predicts a 1.8 degree trajectory, but that figure is based on all of the current commitments being met on issues like deforestation, methane emission reductions, and the updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
Realistically though, it’s unlikely all of the commitments will be met..Furthermore, the 1.8 degree figure doesn’t include any meaningful increase in global energy access.Gogan says she hopes that’s wrong, because there are currently four billion people in the world who lack access to enough electricity, and 850 million people who lack access to any electricity at all.
In fact, the latter figure is expected to increase to three billion people by 2050.It’s essential that we start addressing where all of this needed energy is going to come from.
Eric Ingersoll has conducted analysis which suggests that if everyone on earth had access to just a median level of electricity (about 4,000 kilowatt hours compared to an existing rate of 15,000 kilowatt hours in the U.S.), even then, we’d need to triple our energy infrastructure.
It’s vital that we start taking our rising energy demand into account, and building it into our climate mitigation strategies..This is another example where multiple value drivers can be augmented in tandem; increasing diversity, improving well-being, supporting productivity and creating educational environments.. How can we reduce waste materials, and, moreover, incorporate them into the built environment, reusing plastics and other potential throwaways?.
How do we look at all these things together to find the best business, aesthetic and environmental solutions?.The answer is simple and difficult.
Thinking more broadly with the widest purpose, giving the right culture and encouragement is easy for a time.Creating the space, the willingness to change, requires a great deal of energy.