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==Description:== | |||
Climate Change as a push for urgent innovation <br> | |||
With the ever increasing levels of greenhouse gases emissions, the calls for alternatives to the products causing such emissions through innovative technology to make energy consumption more efficient is ever-growing.<br> | |||
The Copenhagen Conference of 2009, was supposed to be the summit that where a global consensus would be instituted, addressing climate change concerns amongst nations and companies | |||
With a view to establishing actions steps that would take place immediately. Unfortunately, the existence of self-serving interests and the dominance of powerful corporatist megastructures amongst other reasons, made it impossible to arrive at that consensus.<br> | |||
The 2009 scandal, where climatologists of the East Anglia University falsified data to discredit non-believers of the reasons behind the climate change has also seen a recent growth in scepticism over the existence of such changes itself.<br> | |||
==Enablers:== | |||
ICT <br> | |||
Economic and Environmental Benefits <br> | |||
Non-Governmental Organizations & Pressure Groups <br> | |||
Competitive Advantage of Organizations and economies <br> | |||
New Business Opportunities <br> | |||
Market Demand <br> | |||
Trading scheme for carbon credits <br> | |||
==Inhibitors:== | |||
Absence of policy benefits <br> | |||
Cost Implications i.e. switch over costs <br> | |||
Suspicion over report credibility i.e. Climategate <br> | |||
Demand pressure on fossil fuels <br> | |||
Emerging market economies <br> | |||
Lack of political will and Global consensus <br> | |||
Reduced investment in research due to the financial crisis <br> | |||
Demographic development <br> | |||
Rate and direction of technology changes <br> | |||
==Paradigms:== | |||
Current opportunities are not large enough to offset the cost in switching from technology and processes that are responsible for man-made climate changes and even the possibility of a net benefits will still lead to a winners and losers situation. <br> | |||
== Experts== | |||
IPCC <br> | |||
Scientists and Technologists <br> | |||
Government Regulators <br> | |||
==Timing:== | |||
Although debated over 200 years ago, concern over climate change and global warming concerns were raised to global notice in 1938 (Guy S Callender )and again in 1957 (Hans Suess and Roger Revelle). Since the 1960s, evidence of climate change(s) has continued to accumulate <br> | |||
==Web Resources:== | |||
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/events/?fa=eventDetail&id=2802 <br> | |||
http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/DCMS_Climate_Change_Conference_report_11_02_08.pdf <br> | |||
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jan/08/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment <br> | |||
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