Preparing for a Carbon-Constrained World

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Most businesses know that their energy comes mostly from fossil fuels. But as we burn the fuel, the carbon that is released is changing our climate, and most businesses also know that to lower carbon emissions means making energy more expensive.

California led the way in 2006 with its landmark carbon emissions cap legislation. Nationally, Congress will follow at the latest in the next administration.

But now it looks like peak oil is arriving right when we are preparing to raise the price of carbon.

How is peak oil going to change the future of energy in this country? Is it going to be regulation or scarcity that is going to make energy more expensive — or both? With the recent increase in oil price, it's important to know how to prepare your businesses properly.

This forty-five minute live Executive Briefing addresses the most important elements of climate change, peak oil and how they affect each other. It includes a fifteen-minute Q&A period at the end with the presenter.

Questions that we'll answer include:

Climate Change

What is driving climate change?
Why are so many scientists saying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underestimated the impact of near-term global temperature rise?
What is the critical error that the IPCC was warned about but made anyway?

Peak Oil

What is Hubbert's Peak and who was Hubbert?
How do we know oil is peaking? Haven't there been predictions of peaking before?
Why is oil so hard to replace in our economy?
What are the major global forces increasing the price of oil?
What are the alternatives to oil? Do we really have 150 years of coal left? Why is natural gas next?
Where is your business most vulnerable to ever-increasing energy prices in the future?

Peak Oil and Climate Change

What impact will declining fossil fuel availability have on global average temperature?