Climate Change Summit Paris

Filmmaker David Attenborough, whose soothing voice narrated the vicarious journey of millions of TV viewers through the wonders of the natural world, called for scientific investment in "saving the world".

If we could catch one five-thousandth part of the energy that the Sun sprays onto the Moon, onto this globe every day, we would supply all the energy requirements of humanity. So how inefficient are we that we can't get that much?"

Attenborough is one of the public faces of an initiative dubbed the Global Apollo Programme, which seeks to make renewable energy cheaper than coal within 10 years.

The goal would be achieved by convincing governments to invest US$15 billion (€14.2 billion) a year in research and development - a patch, the programme says, on the US$100 billion spent annually on defence-related R&D.

The resulting knowledge and technology should be made freely available to all. The incentive? "Only saving the world," said Attenborough.

Making renewables cheaper than energy from coal, oil and gas was the only answer, added Attenborough. "Then the nations of the world, developed or undeveloped, would choose to use that rather than carbon-derived fuel so that the coal and oil which has caused so much trouble now will stay in the ground where it's out of trouble."

http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/special/Global_Apollo_Programme_Report.pdf

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"Informal Informals"

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/cop21-the-back-channel-climate-meetings-that-could-decide-the-fate-of-the-world

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The Big Picture -- Environmental Security

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"Mission Innovation/Breakthrough Energy Coalition"

http://mission-innovation.net/

http://mission-innovation.net/statement/

http://www.breakthroughenergycoalition.com/en/index.html

Via the Washington Post -- Bill Gates on climate change: 'We need to move faster than the energy sector ever has.'

"GatesNotes: On Energy and Climate Change"

The first goal of the Mission Innovation green initiative is to double the R&D (research and development) budget allocated for the renewable energy sector over the next five years.

The second goal represents a coalition of 28 leading private investors from all over the world (including here both Democrats and Republicans from the U.S.), that are committed to invest unprecedented resources needed to bring the clean technologies to the market.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/11/29/announcing-mission-innovation

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