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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. The transition to carbon-free energy will require either energy storage, such as batteries or pumped hydro, or intermittent power sources such as gas peaker plants and diesel generators. The UK is building a 250MWh liquid air
energy storage system, twice as big as the largest chemical battery, the Big Tesla in Australia. It will begin operating in 2022.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/worlds-biggest-liquid-air-battery-starts-construction-in-uk">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/worlds-biggest-liquid-air-battery-starts-construction-in-uk</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), warns that we have six months to develop renewables to supply the post-lockdown surge in energy demand. If we do not the emissions from fossil fuels
will surge and overwhelm efforts to remain with safe (actually, reasonably risky) limits. A green recovery would be a prodigious job creator and economy stimulator, in addition to saving the future of current life forms on the planet. So far the money is trending
toward high carbon energy. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. The IEA has released a green recovery plan which would keep emissions below their 2019 peak.
<a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/iea-green-coronavirus-recovery-would-keep-global-emissions-below-2019-peak?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter">
https://www.carbonbrief.org/iea-green-coronavirus-recovery-would-keep-global-emissions-below-2019-peak?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">4. As of April, emissions from fossil fuels were down by 17%. Now they have climbed to 5% down.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/17/climate/virus-emissions-reopening.html">
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/17/climate/virus-emissions-reopening.html</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. In “Burning Down the House: The Global Environmental Consequences of Tyranny in the United States” Stephen Mulkey draws on his experience as a ecologist, adviser to Florida’s state government, and program officer for the National
Science Foundation in 2017 to survey the role of the US in the climate crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>“The best we can do as individuals is to prepare our kids to live in a hard world.”
<a href="https://environmentalcentury.net/2020/06/17/burning-down-the-house-the-global-environmental-consequences-of-tyranny-in-the-united-states/">
https://environmentalcentury.net/2020/06/17/burning-down-the-house-the-global-environmental-consequences-of-tyranny-in-the-united-states/</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">6. Bill McKibben finds hope of a paradigm shift in public opinion which will support effective and timely climate action.
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-public-opinion-changes-for-the-better">
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-public-opinion-changes-for-the-better</a></span></p>
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