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Abstract
The talk will cover the Energy Transitions Commission’s vision for the transition of global energy towards net-zero by mid-century, and a stocktake on how we are doing towards that vision. We will look at the key success stories of the transition to date, such as how the plummeting costs of solar PV and batteries can enable a future led by clean electrification. We will also look at the barriers to a rapid transition - from availability of finance, to planning and permitting, scaling up low-carbon hydrogen, carbon capture and carbon removals - and how they may be overcome. We will end with a stocktake on progress, looking at the validity of the world’s 1.5 C objective, and discuss how to accelerate progress.
Biography
Mike Hemsley is Deputy Director for the Energy Transitions Commission, a diverse coalition of public, private, non-governmental and academic stakeholders aiming at accelerating energy transitions globally. He previously worked at the UK’s Committee on Climate Change – an independent advisor to the Government – where he led the CCC's Carbon Budgets team, bringing together the CCC's analysis on sectoral emissions and leading work on cross-cutting decarbonisation policy to recommend the UK’s Sixth Carbon Budget (2033-37).