GALLERY E

LOOKING AHEAD TO THE COMING DECADES

This series focuses on the immediate future and the need to take decisive action in the near future to avoid catastrophic impacts from climate change. Several of these pieces are based on the graphic data from 2035 The Report published June 2020. Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley, Gridlab, Energy Innovation, PaulosAnalysis, www.2035report.com, authors: Amol Phadke, Umed Paliwal, Nikit Abhyankar, Taylor McNair, Ben Paulos, David Wooley, Ric O’Connell

“In October 2018, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that global carbon emissions must be halved by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5°C and avoid catastrophic climate impacts (UN IPCC 2018). Most existing studies, however, examine 2050 as the year that deep decarbonization of electric power systems can be achieved—a timeline that would also hinder decarbonization of the buildings, industrial, and transportation sectors through electrification… These studies offer little hope that climate change impacts can be held to a manageable level in this century. “

2035 The Report “…uses the latest renewable energy and battery cost information to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of achieving 90% “clean” electricity in the United States by 2035—much more quickly than projected by most recent studies.”