Global Apollo Programme
The Global Apollo Programme is a call for a major global science and economics research programme to make carbon-free baseload electricity less costly than electricity from coal by the year 2025.[1]
Launched in June 2015, the project - named for the Apollo Program, which brought together thousands of scientists and engineers to put mankind on the moon - calls for for developed nations to commit to spending 0.02% of their GDP, for 10 years, to fund co-ordinated research to solve the challenge. This equates to $150 billion over a decade, roughly the same cost committed to the Apollo Programme in 2015 money.[2][3]
It has also been likened to the more recent International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, a international research collaborative that is credited with greatly and swiftly improving the quality and economics of semiconductor manufacture.
The initiative is spearheaded by the chemist Professor Sir David King, former Government Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government[4]. Amongst the Apollo group are economists Professor Lord Stern (noted author of The Stern Review) and Lord O'Donnell (former Cabinet Secretary), businessman Lord Turner, cosmologist and astrophysicist Professor Lord Rees (former President of the Royal Society) and labour economist Lord Layard.
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- ^ Clark, Pilita (2 June 2015). "$150bn needed to save world from climate change, warn scientists". Financial Times. Pearson PLC. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Harrabin, Roger (2 June 2015). "'Moon shot' call on clean energy". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 June 2015.