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May 7, 2007
CASEnergy Praises the IPCC Report on Global Climate Change
CASEnergy is pleased to learn that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recognized nuclear energy and the important role it can play in meeting global energy needs, while mitigating the effects of global climate change.
The IPCC’s most recent report, “Mitigation of Climate Change,” provides recommendations on how the world must fight global climate change.
In the report, it strongly emphasizes the need to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions, which indicates that nuclear energy has the ability to play an important role because it does not further contribute to air pollution. Nuclear plants do not produce sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, or carbon dioxide—the major chemical compound that creates greenhouse gases.
Citing the report, the New York Times wrote that in order to address climate change, “countries would need to expand adoption of existing policies that can cut emissions…This work would include pushing for advances in solar and nuclear power.” Reuters wrote that “Humans need to make sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next 50 years to keep global warming in check,” and to do so, “[the report] highlighted the use of nuclear.”
Nuclear energy currently supplies 20% of our nation’s energy, but it has the potential to supply larger amounts of power while sharply reducing utilities' emissions of greenhouse gases.
It is CASEnergy’s hope that the IPCC report will serve as further proof that nuclear energy must be a part of the world’s solution to combat the effects of global climate change, while also addressing our nation’s increasing energy demand.
The CASEnergy Coalition is an advocacy group dedicated to bringing together consumers, conservationists, academics, health care advocates, labor organizations, environmentalists, and community leaders who believe greater use of nuclear energy is critical to a U.S. energy policy that will meet our nation's needs today and in the future.