Abundant clean energy for all: the technological opportunity

全民共享的丰富清洁能源:技术机遇

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2026-01-27

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For the past two centuries, growth in energy supply has been fundamental to human progress and economic development. But fossil fuel dependence is driving climate change at an unprecedented scale. Can emerging technologies for producing and using electricity help deliver a sustainable future?
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  • Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

  • Thank you, thank you all for coming.

  • My name's Nick Stern, I'm chairing this.

  • I'm the chair of the Global School of Sustainability and this is the fourth and last sets of lectures associated with the launching.

  • We decided not to have a big party.

  • We would have invited you, but we thought we would have something a bit more intellectual.

  • So we've had Amartya Sen and Ngozi Akonjo-Waila last year, and we've had Juan Manuel Santos, had myself launching the book in November, and now we've got Adair Turner.

  • So that's our idea of a launch, and we've spread it over a year.

  • Now, the last of them, you get three for the price of one in the sense of a dare, but of course, you will have to come to the other two in order to gain from that deal.

  • They are on February the third and February the ninth, and a dare will explain the structure of those.

  • For tonight, we've got abundant clean energy for all, the technological opportunity.

  • I also want to draw your attention to an event on Monday, that's next Monday, which is in conversation with Tom Steyer.

  • Tom is a climate investor, well, he's a rather successful investor.

  • He's a climate investor, he's a philanthropist, and he's likely a Democratic candidate for the Governor of California.

  • We wish him well.

  • But Tom's a fascinating guy, great to talk to, so that's next Monday, 2nd February.

  • So let me very briefly introduce Adair Turner, Lord Adair Turner.

  • He's had a tremendous career in business in McKinsey.

  • Then he went to be the Director General of the CBI, Chair of the of the FSA here in the UK.