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Dan Kammen

Dan Kammen

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Justice at Johns Hopkins University; former Distinguished Professor of Energy at UC Berkeley; coordinating lead author for the IPCC, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Aug 13, 2026

6:34
Do you take something else from that data or?
6:36
I do.
6:36
Um, and I think the numbers are right.
6:38
I mean, we have projects that have been, that have done badly, but we have to put two things in context here.
6:43
One is that there was no effort to push back that was successful against the big oil and gas projects over s- decades, but we're now seeing it for these large scale renewable projects.
6:54
The other side of the story though, is that clean energy projects actually put more money into communities more sustainably than fossil projects.
7:01
That's fact after fact.

6 MINS LATER

12:35
So what would a path forward look like to maximize solar and wind in the US, and if you want, globally? And, and, and the second part of that question is, is that possible? So you know, not what could it look like or should it look like, but you know, what will it look like, do you think?
6:34
Do you take something else from that data or-
6:36
I do.
6:36
Um, and I think the numbers are right.
6:38
I mean, we have projects that have been, that have done badly, but we have to put two things in context here.
6:43
One is that there was no effort to push back that was successful against the big oil and gas projects over s- decades.
6:50
But we're now seeing it for these large scale renewable projects.
6:54
The other side of the story though, is that clean energy projects actually put more money into communities more sustainably than fossil projects.

6 MINS LATER

12:33
Interesting So what would a path forward look like to maximize solar and wind in the US, and if you want, globally? And, and, uh, and the second part of that question is, is that possible? So, you know, not what could it look like or should it look like, but, you know, what will it look like, do you think?

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