FREE’s Hothouse Research on Yahoo
June 2022, Yahoo!
Despite national climate and energy policy failure in the United States, the American people through their state and local governments and regional partnerships have been successful in their demands to pass impactful policies to lower national emissions, according to a new paper featured on the Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment website…
FREE’s Dr. Byrne talks job creation as a policy driver
May 2022, University of Delaware
…Job creation has been a key policy driver, said John Byrne, UD’s Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy and an affiliate of IEC.
“Solar creates more jobs per million dollars of investment — two to five times as many as other new electrical generation methods,” he said. “I’d love to say it was the zero-carbon footprint, but it was jobs.”…
FREE’s Dr. Byrne talks optimism about climate activism
January 2022, Grist
Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive
There are so many reasons to despair, to think all is lost. But climate activists young and old remain optimistic as they find that action spurs hope, leading to more action in a virtuous cycle.
How energy and environment will change under Biden
November 9, 2020, WHYY
Excerpt: …“I’m hopeful,” says John Byrne, director of the Center for Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware. “I believe that the climate plan that his campaign issued is the kind of multi-dimensional approach we need. We need to do a lot in renewables. We need to do a lot in energy conservation and energy efficiency, especially when it pays for itself.”
U.S. withdraws from Paris climate agreement as election results still unknown
November 4, 2020, WHYY
Excerpt: …”He said that leaving the Kyoto Protocol caused the U.S. to lose its edge on the manufacturing of clean energy technology, and that he thinks leaving the Paris Agreement will do further damage.
“It will reduce our ability to participate in the economics of the future in the clean energy space,” said Byrne. “And it will also hurt our chances with the new technology that is coming forward. That said, I think the world community has found ways to move ahead. And I’m pretty confident that we’re going to end up at a destination similar to the one that the Paris summit originally mapped.”
FREE’s Dr. Byrne on the climate policy strategy of President Obama
August 2015, NBC News
Over the next few days, President Barack Obama will tread gingerly on a receding glacier in the Alaskan Arctic, talk to coastal villagers whose homes are threatened by eroding shorelines and salmon fishermen whose livelihoods are endangered…
FREE’s Dr. John Byrne and alum, Dr. Taehwa Lee, question the viability of nuclear power for South Korea’s energy needs
August 2015, Asian Power
If you think that South Korea’s nuclear prowess will wane as plants near the twilight of their life, then you underestimate just how critical nuclear power is to the country’s day to day operations…
Seoul Metropolitan Government-FREE, Sign an MOU to Cooperate on Energy Policies Suitable for Large Cities
June 16, 2015, Yonhap News Agency, Korea
SEOUL — Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) and the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment (FREE) signed an MOU at City Hall on June 16 to exchange up-to-date information on best practice sustainable energy strategies…
Lecture: New Cities for the New Climate
Dr. John Byrne
New School for Social Research, New York City
2 W. 13th Street, Orientation “Bark” Room, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Climate change has proven to be a conundrum we are failing to address at the global and national level. The two major solutions that emerge- nuclear energy and large scale renewable energy suggest a continued path of CO2 dependency. In this talk Dr. John Byrne will discuss the political economy causes and implications of these technologically driven solutions and propose a third way, a commons approach. The importance of community based action and the role of cities and metropolitan areas are discussed as key to a successful climate change strategy.
2012 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
Dr. John Byrne is speaking at the 2012 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit taking place February 27-29 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland. He is taking part in the panel titled “The Future of Financing Energy Efficiency,” 12pm on February 29th. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.energyinnovationsummit.com/
12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
Dr. John Byrne is speaking at the 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2012 taking place February 2-4 at the Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi, India. He is presenting in the session titled “New Frontiers in Combating Climate Change,” 11am – 12:15pm on February 4th.
For information about the conference, please visit: https://dsds.teriin.org/2012/
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