Current technologies will get us much of the way there, but we are not deploying them enough. Don't count on breakthrough technologies to save us in the near term. Climate change is not a technology problem- it's a change management problem the likes of which the world has never seen.
About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes Cornell professor of ecology and agricultural sciences David Pimentel. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases. Pimentel and a team of Cornell graduate students examined data from more than 120 published papers on the effects of population growth, malnutrition and various kinds of environmental degradation on human diseases. Their report is published in the online version of the Journal of Human Ecology
JUCCCE (Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy) is a non-profit organization dedicated to changing the way China creates and uses energy.
JUCCCE collaborates across borders sectors to bring readily deployable energy smart solutions to China.
That’s why each of our programs is designed to be a game-changer and has a visible milestone within 3 years.
JUCCCE programs include:
* training mayors to develop energy smart cities
* bringing smart grid to China
* a web 2.0 site that draws collective wisdom to identify the world’s most impactful energy projects
* making green consumerism a hip lifestyle
* educating students about sustainability
JUCCCE has a 10-year mandate to visibly accelerate the greening of China.
Due to China’s rapid development, the next few years are a crucial window where we must achieve dramatic, systemic change.
We help solutions scale across China by leveraging our government channels to reach key energy decision makers-- mayors, industry executives and consumers.
Over the next 20 years, China will build:
• 2 New York Cities of new floor space each year
• 40 billion square meters of floor space, total
• 170 new mass transport systems (more than Europe has built, ever)
• 50,000 new skyscrapers (equivalent to 10 Manhattans)
Did you know?
• By 2025, China will have 221 cities with more than 1 million people.
• By 2030, urban China will account for around 20% of global energy consumption.
• Between 2005 and 2025, China will need to construct between 700 and 900 GW of new coal-fired power.
Source: Preparing for China's Urban Billion by McKinsey & Company
