Climate Science on Tap presents a discussion on Global Politics & Energy on a Warming Planet.

The geopolitics of energy plays a key and dynamic role in modern life, affecting many aspects of international and global decision-making. This truth has been more than highlighted by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Issues surrounding energy are critical to security relationships among regions and nations and are central to all considerations of climate change and its impacts.

Innovation in energy technology today is at the core of Energy Transition. It has the goals of mitigating global warming and creating more sustainable, less polluting systems for society. In a bold move, the European Union has now accepted nuclear power as a means to help achieve these goals. Such acceptance reflects, in part, growing global interest in the new technology of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).

Come hear what is sure to be a fascinating conversation between a nuclear physicist and an energy policy expert on this and other essential developments related to the Energy Transition and its geopolitical realities.