The Weather Channel’s Climate 25 features interviews with 25 of the world’s most compelling voices on how climate change will impact human security. In Hal Harvey’s Climate 25 interview, he discusses the global energy sector’s crucial contribution to climate change, and the enormous opportunity to transition to low-carbon energy solutions that can effectively eliminate global pollution—at little or no extra cost.
The P4 Conference, the launch event for Pittsburgh’s P4 Initiative, discussed the ways in which Pittsburgh can become a post-industrial leader in sustainability, innovation, and equity. Hal Harvey’s presentation highlighted four energy-related challenges (regarding buildings, fossil fuels, systems, and urban design) that apply to many of the world’s cities, and emphasized Pittsburgh’s unique opportunities for overcoming them.
Well-designed energy policy can dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save consumers money, and spur innovation. Poorly designed policy fails on some, or all, counts. And bad policy is the far more prevalent type. There is no way to solve the climate problem without reforming energy policy, but this must be done with care and intelligence.
In this video, produced as part of the Risky Business project, Hal Harvey explains how climate change shifts the distribution of weather events and causes the old extreme to become the new normal.
The results of climate change are having an impact on the world around us. More extreme temperatures have caused disastrous weather events, occurring with greater strength and frequency than ever before. What can be done to avoid even greater catastrophe? Hal Harvey’s TEDx presentation focuses on progress, with clean energy as a promising solution: as the technology improves, prices come down and usage goes up.
In his presentation at the 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival, Energy Innovation CEO Hal Harvey describes the consequences of climate change and the opportunities for a low-carbon future. Higher temperatures and more extreme weather has already affected millions of people, and threatens irreversible damage. But there is hope to reverse this trend if we take action to manage fossil fuel use, expand energy efficiency, and accelerate renewable energy.
A confluence of factors – new and inexpensive technologies, declining electricity demand, and increased climate change action – will radically change in the utility business model. Utilities must evolve from electricity suppliers to service providers, and they ought to be rewarded based on reliability, affordability and environmental performance. Click here to watch the Q&A session following the presentation.
