How the next US president should slow global warming |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children׳s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Room R242, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1H 8L1;2. School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, 6230 South Street PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2;3. Department of Geography, University of Toronto Mississauga, Room SB3104, 3359 Mississauga Road N., Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 1C6;4. School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, 2146 Health Sciences Mall, Room 4606, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3;1. Nano Materials & Components Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Seongnam 13509, Republic of Korea;2. Multidisciplinary Sensor Research Group, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 305-700, Daejeon, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Advanced Device Engineering, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeongno, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-350, Republic of Korea;1. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke and CRCHUS, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada;2. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke and CRCHUS, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This paper addresses the energy technologies and policies that the next US president should immediately implement to slow global warming. Increased reliance on renewable energy through deployment of a National Renewable Portfolio Standard will help meet increased electrical demand in a sustainable way. Carbon regulation through an internationally fungible cap and trade system will help make renewables more cost competitive with conventional energy. Mandating National Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards will also help decrease electrical demand and reduce the need for large investments in new generation. Within the transportation sector, plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles should be rapidly deployed to shift this sector's liquid fuel requirements to the electrical grid. |
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