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Cultivated meat is about to change our world
Israeli food-tech startup Aleph Farms can produce cultivated meat using a fraction of the land, water and time.
Aleph Farms unveils prototype of first commercial cultivated steak product, November 2020. Photo courtesy of Aleph Farms
In 2018, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report concluding the world will pass the 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Climate Agreement by 2050 if energy, transportation and agriculture sectors do not undergo a radical transformation.
Despite the complications brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, renewable electricity generation is expected to rise by an additional 5% in 2020 thanks to the expansion of solar and wind energy and hydroelectric power projects.
(Juan Carlos/Reuters) Climate scientists are not predicting imminent catastrophe.
Note: This is the second in a three-part series on the impact of time horizons in equity valuation, climate change and U.S. public debt.
What is the appropriate time horizon for responding to climate change?
Some argue that the transition to renewables must happen as soon as possible, using all tools available: government mandates, climate accords, innovation, carbon taxes, wealth transfers, incentives, subsidies, and preferably all the above. The time for action, the relevant time horizon, was yesterday. Call this the regnant orthodoxy.
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To assess this urgency, let’s assume as true the science presented by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its latest report, the so-called 5th Assessment, published in 2014. Adopting the IPCC viewpoint as the authoritative source on climate change helps in examining a contentious subject.