PRESIDENT OBAMA on CLIMATE CHANGEGeorgetown University

Washington, DC

June 25, 2013

presented by Denise EvansVice President, Market DevelopmentIBM Corporation

What is Climate Change?

• Any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time

• Caused by human expansion of “the greenhouse effect”

Gases that contribute to the Greenhouse Effect

• Water Vapor• Carbon Dioxide• Methane• Nitrous Oxide• Chlorofluorocarbons

(CFCs)

The Effects of Climate Change in 2012

The Costs of Extreme Weather

Plan to Reduce Carbon Pollution • Reduce Carbon Pollution from

Power Plants– EPA to establish new carbon pollution

standards for both new and existing power plants

• Accelerate Clean Energy Leadership

– Set goal to double wind and solar electricity, again, by 2020

– Fiscal Year 2014 budget increasing funding for clean energy technology across all agencies by 30%

– Interior Department to green light enough private, renewable electricity generation on public lands to power more than 6 million homes by 2020

– Department of Defense committed to install 3 gigawatts of renewable power on its bases by 2025

• Build a 21st Century Transportation Sector

– Add to car and truck fuel standards, standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and vans

– Partner with truck makers to set fuel standards for next gen vehicles

• Cut Energy Waste in Homes, Businesses and Factories

– New energy standards for appliances like refrigerators and dishwashers

• Reduce other Greenhouse Gas Emissions

– The EPA and Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Interior, Labor and Transportation to develop and implement comprehensive, interagency methane strategy by 2020

• More Energy Efficient Federal Government Buildings

– Federal Government will consume 20% of its electricity from renewable sources within the next seven years.

Preparing the U.S. for Impacts of Climate Change

• Supporting climate resilient investments• Rebuilding and learning from Superstorm Sandy• Launching efforts to create sustainable and

resilient hospitals• Maintaining agricultural productivity• Providing tools for climate resilience

Technology and Climate Change

• Wind, solar, and geothermal renewable energy generation

• Clean nuclear power plant approved in Burke, Georgia

• Federally supported new oil drilling technologies

All Figures and Charts retrieved from www.whitehouse.gov/share/climate-action-plan

Clean Energy Research & Development

• In 2009, the Administration funded the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

• The Administration has also launched a series of clean energy innovation hubs

Progress Made• In 2013 Climate Change plans

were adopted for the first time

• Interactive and sea-level rise maps released to aid in rebuilding efforts after Superstorm Sandy

• The production of more domestic oil while also producing more cleaner-burning natural gas than any other country on Earth

"I refuse to condemn your generation and future

generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing"

-President Barack Obama