Daniel Kammen

Green-Biz Editor-at-Large Daniel M. Kammen co-directs the Berkeley Institute of the Environment (http://bie.berkeley.edu) and is founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (http://rael.berkeley.edu).

Green-Biz Editor-at-Large Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California. He co-directs the Berkeley Institute of the Environment (http://bie.berkeley.edu) and is founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (http://rael.berkeley.edu). Kammen has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has appointments in the Energy and Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy.

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The Climate Tipping Point and Timeline ... Accelerated ClimateBiz.com
By Daniel Kammen, April 15, 2008
Although experts are still debating at what point we're likely to see dramatic, rapid changes in global climate, the fact that the planet is able to absorb less carbon means the importance of...
A Snapshot of the U.S. Wind Industry
By Daniel Kammen, December 10, 2007
Many people are unaware that wind power in many cases has become competitive with conventional power derived from fossil fuels. European countries such as Spain and Germany also are demonstrating...
Tools Needed to Make Good on Climate Protection Proposals ClimateBiz.com
By Daniel Kammen, November 12, 2007
Just as $90 barrels of oil are making alternative technologies possible and desirable, awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC acknowledges the need for shared recognition of the...
It's (Long Past) Time to Plan a U.S. National Energy Strategy ClimateBiz.com
By Daniel Kammen, August 30, 2007
Through action or inaction, our collective climate future is strongly tied to what course the United States steers in the beginning of the 21st Century. And choosing the right course means...
From Carbon Markets to the (Conveniently) Forgotten Four Billion ClimateBiz.com
By Daniel Kammen, August 05, 2007
The now-widespread acceptance of the reality of climate change, and the subsequent debates on how best to address it, ignore the fact that our current schemes of carbon-based currency markets...
What Solar Power Needs Now ClimateBiz.com
By Daniel Kammen, July 10, 2007
The growth of solar power in the last 40 years has been remarkable in many ways, but it is still a small contributor to our total energy usage. There are several models in place around the world...
Transportation's Next Big Thing is Already Here
By Daniel Kammen, May 30, 2007
Today's movement to 'get the carbon out' of our fuel supply bears a resemblence to the push to 'get the lead out' in the 1970s. Now, as then, the transition to a low-carbon fuel supply can be...
A Currency for the Wealth, and Environmental Debt, of Nations ClimateBiz.com
By Daniel Kammen, April 28, 2007
In order to survive and thrive in the face of climate change, we need to establish and then put into practice -- as quickly as possible -- markets that utilize the value of carbon. ...

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