Joel Jaeger

Researcher @worldresources. Sustainable economics, green jobs, and systems change.

[World Resources Institute @WorldResources]

New data from #SystemsChangeLab highlights three major shifts necessary to reduce and eliminate building-related emissions:

🏗️Construct zero-carbon buildings
🏭Optimize building energy efficiency
🏡Decarbonize heating, cooling and appliances

👉 https://t.co/JljSIPFn5z

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

When the Paris Agreement was reached in 2015, it's goals were at risk of being dead on arrival because the world had 1,496 GW of coal power planned to be built. Since then it has fallen to 578 GW. Why? What's needed next? My new article: https://t.co/eSwqKAt62n #SystemsChangeLab

[World Resources Institute @WorldResources]

🏙 With 2.5 billion more people expected to live in cities and urban areas around the world by 2050, it has never been more important to consider how we sustainably and equitably design our growing cities. Learn more at #SystemsChangeLab➡️ https://t.co/qNp6YGwBm4

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

@AidanRMackenzie I don't fully understand - does this CE extend to exploration drilling, or just to pre-drilling exploration activities?

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

This graph shows we have made a LOT of progress on climate change in the past 10 years!

And due to the increasing pace of technological advances in recent years (especially regarding solar, wind, batteries, EVs and eFuels) it will accelerate further.
https://t.co/ko9yLtOkx1

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

Coal plants were booming in Chile a decade ago, but thanks to renewables the country has now cut its coal power usage in half even as electricity demand rises. Read how: https://t.co/N64QanYsAh

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

The world needs to phase out coal as fast as the UK did. How can others replicate this rapid change? #AheadOfTheCurve #SystemsChangeLab https://t.co/N64QanYsAh

[WRI Climate @WRIClimate]

The UK and Chile are among the top 10 countries that have phased down coal the fastest. 🇬🇧🇨🇱

#SystemsChangeLab breaks down what we can we learn from their experiences in a new article: https://t.co/U3d09TVd7b

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

EVs are on track to reach ~2/3 of car sales in 2030, according to @RockyMtnInst. Compelling analysis of why the establishment view and oil companies are underestimating the future of EVs. https://t.co/LIzJMfYPKD. @KingsmillBond

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

To meet climate targets, the world needs to scale up EVs as fast as Norway did. https://t.co/XdTnYkgEch

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

Countries like Norway and China have shown it's possible to grow EV sales fast enough to meet climate goals. Exponential change is accelerating, so other countries are catching up. My new #systemschangelab article: https://t.co/XdTnYkhc1P @WorldResources

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

Countries as diverse as Denmark ($67k annual GDP per capita), Uruguay ($21k), and Namibia ($5k) rank within the top 8 for fastest periods of increasing solar and wind generation share. https://t.co/ujaa4hB3SH

[Kelly Levin @Kelly_Levin_]

The world needs to > than triple solar and wind generation -- from 12% to 41% by 2030. New research from @joelmjaeger at #SystemsChangeLab finds 8 countries have already achieved an equivalent rate of increase. https://t.co/9VUxJqbTqp @WRIClimate @BezosEarthFund #AheadOfTheCurve

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

The world needs solar and wind generation to grow from 12% to 41% by 2030 to be in line for net-zero emissions. 8 countries have proven such a steep rate of change is possible. #systemschangelab @WorldResources

Read my new article: https://t.co/ImxP1F6Hm6

[WRI Climate @WRIClimate]

NEW analysis finds Michigan can create 56,000 new #EV manufacturing jobs by 2030 if supportive policies are put in place to encourage EV investments and ensure a #JustTransition for auto workers and communities:

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

Excited that today my WRI team released a major report on how Michigan can maximize economic benefits and equity from the transition to EVs. It's the most comprehensive analysis to date of the jobs effects of EVs at the state level. https://t.co/j3nNKMbV5j

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

@DrSimEvans Wow, can't believe they're assuming a deceleration of growth rather than an acceleration! IEA has gotten increasingly better at incorporating S-curve dynamics into their renewable energy projections in the past couple years, but clearly not for EVs.

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

US EV sales growing from 6% today to 67% in the next 10 years, as the EPA rules imply, is definitely possible. Norway went from 6% EV sales to 86% EV sales in 9 years after incentivizing EVs.

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

In both the US and France, heat pump sales crossed 50% in 2022. I hadn't realized this important threshold had already been crossed. https://t.co/9BrJAhqK7j

[Joel Jaeger @joelmjaeger]

@Twins I like the new uniforms, but not the M hats.