The Big Climate Speech: Why Tackling climate change is one of America's greatest economic opportunities How will technology impact global energy and climate challenges? What are the facts, the politics, the opportunities, and challenges for businesses? Join us for an extensive discussion of Obama’s climate speech impact on corporate and technology outcomes. Increase your knowledge, awareness, understand the facts, and assess the views. Learning Outcomes: Increase knowledge and awareness of current events and business trends in climate change and future outcomes At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to: a) Explore Obama’s climate speech b) Examine global challenges and business impact c) Discuss the future of climate change, explore technology, and analyze business opportunities

1. PRESIDENT OBAMA
on CLIMATE
CHANGE
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
June 25, 2013
presented by Denise Evans
Vice President, Market Development
IBM Corporation

2. 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”

3. Gases that contribute to the
Greenhouse Effect
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Water Vapor
Carbon Dioxide
Methane
Nitrous Oxide
Chlorofluorocarbons
(CFCs)

4. The Effects of Climate Change in
2012

5. The Costs of Extreme Weather

7. Plan to Reduce Carbon Pollution
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EPA to establish new carbon pollution
standards for both new and existing
power plants
Accelerate Clean Energy
Leadership
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Reduce Carbon Pollution from
Power Plants
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
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Cut Energy Waste in Homes,
Businesses and Factories
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New energy standards for appliances
like refrigerators and dishwashers
Reduce other Greenhouse Gas
Emissions
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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
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
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Federal Government will consume 20%
of its electricity from renewable sources
within the next seven years.

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. •
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

12. 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 cleanerburning natural gas than
any other country on Earth

13. "I refuse to condemn
your generation and
future generations to a
planet that’s beyond
fixing"
-President Barack Obama