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Top global scientists and business leaders support Paris clean energy plan

Twenty-seven world-leading scientists, executives, academics and politicians have called on nations to adopt the Global Apollo Programme (GAP) by the time of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December.
Top global scientists and business leaders support Paris clean energy plan

The signatories of a letter published today include David Attenborough, Brian Cox, Paul Polman, Carlo Carraro, Nilesh Jadhav and other respected figures argues. It argues that “a sensible approach to tackling climate change will not only pay for itself but provide economic benefits to the nations of the world.”

The GAP plan for internationally coordinated RD&D (research, development and demonstration) into renewable energy technology was proposed in June by a group of top scientists, economists and energy experts including Nicholas Stern, Gus O’Donnell, Richard Layard, David King, Martin Rees, Adair Turner and John Browne. Its aim is to make renewable energy cheaper than fossil fuels by increasing government spending on research to at least $15 billion a year globally for the next 10 years.

The letter comes at the same time as a video from Sir David Attenborough urges support for the programme. It presents the belief of the signatories that “global warming can be addressed without adding significant economic costs or burdening taxpayers with more debt” and urges countries to support GAP.

The full list of signatories:

Sir David Attenborough

Professor Brian Cox

Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

Professor Jeffery Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Arunabha Ghosh, CEO, Council on Energy Environment and Water

Ed Davey, Former UK Energy Secretary  

Bill Hare, Founder and CEO, Climate Analytics

Nilesh Y. Jadhav, Program Director, Energy Research Institute @NTU, Singapore

Niall Dunne, Chief Sustainability Officer, BT

Carlo Carraro, Director, International Centre for Climate Governance

Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Chair, Grantham Institute

Mark Kenber, CEO, The Climate Group

Ben Goldsmith, Founder, Menhaden Capital

Sabina Ratti, Executive Director, FEEM - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Lord Browne, Chairman L1 Energy

Zac Goldsmith MP

Professor Martin Siegert, Co-Director Grantham Institute

Professor Joanna Haigh CBE, Co-Director, Grantham Institute and Vice President of Royal Meteorological Society

Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Dr Fatima Denton, African Climate Policy Centre

Denys Shortt, CEO, DCS Group

Lord Turner, Former Chairman, Financial Services Authority

Lord O’Donnell, Former Cabinet Secretary  

Lord Layard, London School of Economics

Lord Nicholas Stern, Author, Stern Review on Climate Change

Professor John Shepherd CBE FRS

Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal

 

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