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‘A big team sport’: A leading energy scientist on what it really takes to reach a net zero economy
Apr 26, 2023, 10:06am EDT
Melissa Lott, director of research at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, is one of the leading theorists in the U.S. of a core objective of climate policy: Electrify everything. We texted about the limitations of that approach, and how regular people can contribute to it. Lott’s work is featured in a documentary on net zero that will premiere on PBS this week.