{"id":6354,"date":"2016-01-31T23:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2016-01-31T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:26:23","slug":"cop21-mark-jacobson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6354","title":{"rendered":"COP21: Mark Jacobson &#8211; 100% Renewable Energy is Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 8, 2016, COP21, Paris<\/p>\n<p>Stanford\u00c2\u00a0Professor\u00c2\u00a0Mark Jacobson appeared at a Paris COP21 press conference called &#8220;May the Force Be With You&#8221; along with Kevin Anderson and host Stuart Scott of <a href=\"http:\/\/climatematters.tv\">climatematters.tv<\/a>. Jacobson stated that\u00c2\u00a0an international transition to 100% renewable wind, water, and solar renewable energy by 2050 was technically and economically possible, though political and social barriers remain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMS1dtGzM1A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6355\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MarkJacobsonPanel03464_550.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6355\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6355 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MarkJacobsonPanel03464_550.jpg\" alt=\"MarkJacobsonPanel03464_550\" width=\"550\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;we also have done studies now to show that it&#8217;s possible in each of 139 countries of the world that we&#8217;ve examined to do this&#8221; ~ Mark Jacobson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We do think it&#8217;s possible not only to power the United States, each state of the whole country and the country itself, with 100% clean and renewable wind, water, and solar power for all purposes &#8211; that&#8217;s electricity, transportation, heating, and cooling, and industry &#8211; but we also have done studies now to show that it&#8217;s possible in each of 139 countries of the world that we&#8217;ve examined to do this, that such a transition is not only necessary, but it&#8217;s also technically and economically possible. But there are social and political barriers to actually getting the full implementation, although there has been some progress recently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6357\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MarkJacobson03439_550.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6357\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6357 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MarkJacobson03439_550-539x600.jpg\" alt=\"MarkJacobson03439_550\" width=\"539\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;And then eliminating global warming, if you actually phase these, do this on a global scale and eliminate 80% emissions by 2030, as we propose, and 100% by 2050, we can reduce the impacts of climate change and actually start reversing by 2100.&#8221; ~ Mark Jacobson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;So we think there are so many benefits, &#8230; we calculate 22 million jobs worldwide net over lost of such a transition, and eliminating 4 to 7 million premature air pollution deaths which will cost the world today over 3% of the GDPs of all the countries of the world. And then eliminating global warming, if you actually phase these, do this on a global scale and eliminate 80% emissions by 2030, as we propose, and 100% by 2050, we can reduce the impacts of climate change and actually start reversing by 2100. &#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6356\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MarkJacobsonPanel03475_550.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6356\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6356 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MarkJacobsonPanel03475_550.jpg\" alt=\"MarkJacobsonPanel03475_550\" width=\"550\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O&#8217;Malley have all committed to hundred percent clean renewable energy by no later than 2050\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ~ Jacobson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>see also<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6086\">Paris: Mark Jacobson and 100% Renewables<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Report by James George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 8, 2016, COP21, Paris Stanford\u00c2\u00a0Professor\u00c2\u00a0Mark Jacobson appeared at a Paris COP21 press conference called &#8220;May the Force Be With You&#8221; along with Kevin Anderson and host Stuart Scott of climatematters.tv. Jacobson stated that\u00c2\u00a0an international transition to 100% renewable wind, water, and solar renewable energy by 2050 was technically and economically possible, though political and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}