Their conclusions are:
CONCLUSION 1. Meeting the basic energy needs of the poorest people on this planet is a moral and social imperative that can and must be pursued in concert with sustainability objectives.
CONCLUSION 2. Concerted efforts must be made to improve energy efficiency and reduce the carbon intensity of the world economy
CONCLUSION 3. Technologies for capturing and sequestering carbon from fossil fuels, particularly coal, can play a major role in the cost-effective
management of global carbon dioxide emissions.
CONCLUSION 4. Competition for oil and natural gas supplies has the potential to become a source of growing geopolitical tension and economic vulnerability for many nations in the decades ahead.
CONCLUSION 5. As a low-carbon resource, nuclear power can continue to make a significant contribution to the world’s energy portfolio in the future, but only if major concerns related to capital cost, safety, and weapons proliferation are addressed.
CONCLUSION 6. Renewable energy in its many forms offers immense opportunities for technological progress and innovation.
CONCLUSION 7. Biofuels hold great promise for simultaneously addressing climate-change and energy-security concerns.
CONCLUSION 8. The development of cost-effective energy storage technologies, new energy carriers, and improved transmission infrastructure could substantially reduce costs and expand the contribution from a variety of energy supply options.
CONCLUSION 9. The S&T community—together with the general public—has a critical role to play in advancing sustainable energy solutions and must be
effectively engaged.
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