Growth Without (Emissions) Growth: State Progress and Drift on Decoupling​

Authors

Devashree Saha, The Brookings Institution

Document Type

Lecture

Publication Date

11-14-2016

Abstract

Decoupling of GDP growth from growth in carbon emissions is taking on an increasing salience since it represents the squaring of the circle necessary to decarbonize the global economy while maintaining economic growth. Now the evidence says that since 2000 the United States has fully decoupled economic growth from carbon emissions: GDP went up by 30 percent over the past 15 years while carbon emissions decreased by 10 percent. This public lecture and presentation will discuss how the transformation of economic growth towards a lower dependency on fossil fuels and related carbon emissions is happening across U.S. states including in Nevada.

Disciplines

Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration

File Format

pdf

File Size

2.467 KB

Streaming Media

Language

English

Comments

This lecture was presented on November 14, 2016 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Greenspun Auditorium. Sponsored by Brookings Mountain West.

Devashree Saha, Ph.D., is a Brookings Institution Governance Studies fellow.

Video of this lecture is available for download as a 34 GB MP4 file, and also by streaming via Youtube.

Attached file: 29 PowerPoint slides

Repository Citation

Saha, D. (2016). Growth Without (Emissions) Growth: State Progress and Drift on Decoupling​.
Available at: https://youtu.be/MLrqzXXubJE