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Daniel Kammen on the near- and long-term energy vision in the context of a clean energy economy, and the social and equity implications associated.

Carbon Brief spoke to Daniel Kammen, one of the contributors to the report of the ODI's beyond coal report, about the findings. The original publication, Beyond Coal - Scaling up Clean Energy to Fight Global Poverty by Kammen et al. can be found here.

Former Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and former Director of SLAC Burton Richter—both Nobel prize winners in physics—argued in favor of nuclear power as part of the solution to climate change in a debate at Silicon Valley Energy Summit. UC-Berkeley’s Daniel Kammen and NRDC’s Ralph Cavanagh argued against nuclear and convinced just barely more audience members to change positions.

Professor Daniel Kammen, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow at INET Oxford, discusses the strategies emerging to cost-effectively decarbonize energy systems worldwide.

Rapidly melting arctic ice, catastrophic hurricanes, devastating wildfires, and record-breaking drought—scientists agree that the climate is changing, that it’s human caused, and that it will undeniably be one of the most serious problems facing the world’s citizens for generations to come.  At the same time, they acknowledge that technologies to combat climate change do exist. How can we come together to address this challenge which has become a partisan political issue in the United States in a way it has not elsewhere in the world?