Unique opportunity here to serve as a Chapter Scientist for IPCC 7th Assessment Report.
Apply by 18 October
IPCC seeking highly motivated early-career researchers from developing countries and economies in transition to be Chapter Scientists for AR7.
Details below…
www.ictp.it/opportunity/...
Join our team working on Environmental Policy at U.Wisconsin.
Delighted to announce The La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison has just launched a search for an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy.
Deadline: October 24, 2025.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Updated with new data and chapters, this 2nd edition describes an array of driving forces leading us toward a solar-centric energy system, one where solar power lies at the core rather than at the edge.
The climate problem is getting worse but the solutions are getting better.
So far, no technology has done more for improving the solutions available to address climate change than PV.
New book coming out July 18:
2nd ed. of How Solar Energy Became Cheap, now titled, “Pathway to a Solar Centric Economy.”
New focus on long term implications of continued trends in PV:
1. Solar becomes the core of global energy system
2. Need to prepare to take advantage of it
gregnemet.net/book
New paper led by Prof. Lena Neij "Beyond Market Failures" for solar policy. Focuses on the roles that policy can play in enabling residential adoption. Case study of Sweden.
academic.oup.com/ooenergy/adv...
It should be more well known that @solarchase.bsky.social and @gregnemet.net and Erica Fuchs are quoted in the chapter, very much at the heart of what makes it excellent.
The State of CDR team is hiring. The Head of Partnerships position will help us advance international collaboration on scaling carbon dioxide removal.
Come work with an international team.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/head-of...
I am hiring a 2-year post doc at U.Wisconsin on “technological innovation and climate change“ as part of the GENIE project:
genie.ece.iiasa.ac.at/about
Priority deadline is 14 March 2025 and start is spring/summer 2025.
More details at:
uwmadison.box.com/v/techchange...
Thanks to @gwagner.com, @gregnemet.bsky.social and @cleanenergywire.bsky.social for sharing insights about what the new secretary of energy missed when talking about German energy policy.
Not every technology has the same learning rate—and some technologies don’t even have a learning curve. There has been some good research into what traits make a technology better for learning curves. We’d do a lot better as a society if that work was applied more readily to public policy.
Not so much about the history of solar technologies in my memory, but the book "Solar Power" (www.ucpress.edu/books/solar-...) and the great work by @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social 🔆
❓How to achieve high wellbeing with low impacts: Our seminar at #COP29 shows demand-side solutions for green transformation.
👉 What's your example?
🕘15 Nov., 15:45 -17:00 local time
Moderated by Joyashree Roy, talks by @dianaurge.bsky.social, @KeigoAkimoto, @BasvanRuijven, @gregnemet.bsky.social
For those at #COP29 join us at the Japan Pavilion on Friday 15:45 for a session on:
“Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society”
on our work on low energy demand with:
Joyashree Roy, AIT
Bas van Ruijven, IIASA
Keigo Akimoto, RITE
Greg Nemet, U.Wisconsin
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, IPCC
Also streamed:
🚨 Join the COP29 seminar
📆 On 15.Nov. at 15:45 (local time)/12:45CET/20:45JST
📈 Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society
▶️ how novel digital technologies diffuse and what major social innovation trends are seen that positively influence our common future. iiasa.ac.at/events/nov-2...
Important report heading into COP29:
The 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report from the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre.
Follows up on where we are after the commitments made at COP28 last year.
Report launch and webinar this Friday November 1
register.gotowebinar.com/register/120...
Cat Clifford captures challenges of the energy transition in a purple swing state, Wisconsin
“Shared revenue programs” key to getting communities on board
Large solar preferable to CAFO
(Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) w water quality concerns and others
www.ciphernews.com/articles/wha...
Paul Haavardsrud on CBC "Cost of Living" on the future of solar
Solar is sneaking up on people
It’s 6% of global electricity, growing at 30%/yr,
and it's been growing like that for 30 years.
It won’t take many more years of that to make an impact Revolutionary? maybe
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Read this fascinating Science|Business article on the origins of #SolarPower featuring research from Sugandha Srivastav and @gregnemet.bsky.social :
sciencebusiness.net/news/how-che...
@inetoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social
Good overview by @catclifford.bsky.social of clean energy policy in midwestern swing states: MI, PA, WI.
- MI clear leader
- WI has lagged, can look to MI
- PA a fossil-state producer, but 35% RPS possible
www.ciphernews.com/articles/loo...
New paper
“Lessons for scaling direct air capture from the history of ammonia synthesis”
Led by Cameron Roberts
in short:
If high temp DAC can grow like ammonia it can meet 2050 targets,
but needs strong social consensus and support, currently missing
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jdqo7tZ6a...
Nice overview of the challenges of upscaling Direct Air Capture to become big enough to be relevant to the climate challenge by Alec Kuhn in Scientific American
“Can Pulling Carbon from Thin Air Slow Climate Change?”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
“It’s now a sexy topic if you’re in Silicon Valley to have a CDR startup, which like five years ago would have been a crazy idea,” @gregnemet.bsky.social
But is this a good or bad thing?
Read on: eenews.net/articles/car...
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