5 Million Jobs and 5 Billion Tons in CO2 Reductions Can Be Achieved By 2020 Says Gigaton Throwdown

By Tracey de Morsella on July 10, 2009 2 Comments biofuel, building efficiency, building regulation, capital investment, carbon dioxide, clean energy, clean energy jobs, climate policy, climate protection, CO2 emissions, construction materials, Dan Kammen, Drexel University, efficiency standards, electrical grid, energy policy, energy security, fuel standards, Geothermal, Gigaton Throwdown, greenhouse gas emissions, industries, laboratory-to-industry partnerships, MIT, nuclear, policymakers, private capital, solar;, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of California-Berkeley green businesses, University of Michigan, utility regulation, venture capitalists, wind

In a presentation before national policymakers and analysts recently, leading clean energy venture capitalists, academics and CEOs unveiled the “Gigaton Throwdown,” an assessment of the nation’s clean energy potential that identifies seven industries capable of creating 5 million clean energy jobs and reducing CO2 emissions by 5-7 gigatons by 2020. The report, a collaborative effort between leading researchers at UC Berkeley, MIT, University of Michigan, Stanford, and Drexel University, and clean tech leaders, challenges Washington policymakers to remove obstacles that keep billions of capital investment dollars sitting on the sidelines.