Johannes Ackva on Managing Climate Change

Johannes Ackva joins the podcast to discuss the main drivers of climate change and our best technological and governmental options for managing it. You can read more about Johannes' work at http://founderspledge.com/climate

Timestamps:

00:00 Johannes's journey as an environmentalist

13:21 The drivers of climate change

23:00 Oil, coal, and gas

38:05 Solar, wind, and hydro

49:34 Nuclear energy

57:03 Geothermal energy

1:00:41 Most promising technologies

1:05:40 Government subsidies

1:13:28 Carbon taxation

1:17:10 Planting trees

1:21:53 Influencing government policy

1:26:39 Different climate scenarios

1:34:49 Economic growth and emissions

1:37:23 Social stability

References:

Emissions by sector: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

Energy density of different energy sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25341-9

Emissions forecasts: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/the-unconditional-probability-distribution-of-future-emissions-and-temperatures/ and https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg6248

Risk management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JJvIR1W-xI

Carbon pricing: https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(18)30567-1.pdf

Why not simply plant trees?: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-many-new-trees-would-we-need-offset-our-carbon-emissions

Deforestation: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade3535

Decoupling of economic growth and emissions: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/22/highlights.htm

Premature deaths from air pollution: https://www.unep.org/interactives/air-pollution-note/