28 - Audio Interview - 25 March 2010

Anthony Patt

100% renewable electricity: A 2050 roadmap for Europe and North Africa

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Summary

The Holy Grail in responding effectively to carbon emissions and climate change is the ability to move to a fully decarbonized economy, that is, one based on 100% renewable energy. Dr Anthony Patt, a co-author of a new report entitled 100% renewable electricity: A 2050 roadmap for Europe and North Africa, explains how a mix of pan-regional policy and market based development initiatives could enable Europe and North Africa to decarbonize their electricity generation by 2050.

The report, published by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) LLP, is authored by a team involving individuals from PwC, IIASA, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the European Climate Forum.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Anthony Patt leads the Decisions and Governance research group within IIASA's Risk and Vulnerability program. His research focuses primarily on environmental decision-making, investigating how individual and collective choices enhance or interfere with the effectiveness of environmental policies. He works primarily in the area of climate change, considering both adaptation and mitigation policies. He has conducted extensive field research on climate adaptation in Africa.

Dr Patt was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report, is an Associate Editor of the journals Regional Environmental Change and Climate & Development, and is on the editorial board of Global Environmental Change. He taught for four years at Boston University, as Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy in the Department of Geography and Environment. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2001, in the field of Public Policy.

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