10.00 Denis Hicks - TripleHelix.pdf

1、Industrial Entrepreneurshipfor SustainabilityOpening Keynote ImpulseChemicals and SustainabilityWhy is it So Hard To Do the Right Thing?Industrial Entrepreneurshipfor SustainabilityPlan of this Plan of this Impulse Impulse PresentationPresentation What is the PROBLEM really?Climate Change&Policy Res

2、ponse(Energy)Energy Chemicals and Polymers So why is it so HARD to do the RIGHT THING?Human Response in the face of COMPLEXITY Two ways that clever people Think,(I will add a 3rd)Society favours MARKET ECONOMICS So what can be DONE?Industrial Entrepreneurshipfor SustainabilityIts not just Polymers t

3、hat can be CircularPolyurethanes 2000 CEPolyurethanes 2000 CEPilot Plant ICI Polyurethanes(2000 CE)UNECE Sustainable Energy Modelling.Impact on Energy Intensive Industries(2015 CE)Triple Helix Chemical Recycling for PUIndustrial Entrepreneurshipfor SustainabilityWhat is the PROBLEM really?The Climat

4、e is changing faster than society can adapt1902 Svante Arrhenius warns of the dangers of coal combustionCarbon Dioxide/Water as a thermostat+/-2CEarths temperature naturally changes(sun output,earths tilt,orbital changes,terrestrial events)Climate relatively stable for the last 300m years when we ev

5、olved as a speciesTemperature controled by water/CO2 interaction&biomass accumulation.(NB:atmospheric CO2 topped up with volcanic emissions 0.5 billion tonnes/yr&+1C increase increases water content of air by 7%)We now swamp the system with 40 billion tonnes/yr CO2,accelerate the climate change.Indu

6、strial Entrepreneurshipfor SustainabilityImplications of Science&Implications of Science&its treatment in Policy its treatment in Policy The timescales are politically very,very long Global Temperature in the Paris accord is a 35yr average The climate lags CO2changes by 1-2 decades 1.5C/2C Net Zero