Presentation at 2016 Massachusetts Sustainable Campuses and Communities Conference

2. The Paris
Agreement
• “HOLD…THE INCREASE IN GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
[INCREASE] TO WELL BELOW 2 °C AND PURSUE EFFORTS TO LIMIT THE
… INCREASE TO 1.5 °C”
• A “DE FACTO CAP” COMPOSED OF INDIVIDUAL PLEDGES?
• REVIEW AND RATCHET
• MONITORING, REPORTING AND VERIFICATION

3. The Paris
Agreement
• GENERATES BROAD PARTICIPATION
• SIGNALS THAT THE LOW-CARBON TRANSITION IS INEVITABLE
• SETS A BENCHMARK FOR POST-OBAMA CLIMATE POLICY

4. THE AMBITION GAP

5. The big quesMon:
How do we increase ambiMon?

7. U.S GDP and Primary Energy Consumption
(indexed to 1990 levels).

8. Uncertainty at the federal level

9. Clean Power Plan ruling

10. Mid-term review of fuel
economy/GHG standards

14. Mission Innova*on aims to reinvigorate
and accelerate global clean energy
innovaMon with the objecMve to make
clean energy widely affordable.

15. The Climate Decep4on Dossiers
Internal Fossil Fuel Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinforma*on

16. The big quesMon:
How do we increase ambiMon?

19. Expanding RGGI

22. Thank You