Energy Challenges for the 21st Century
Arnulf Grubler 2005
The Energy Problem:
• Too little: 2 billion without access to
modern energy services
• Too much: Effluents from fossil fuel use
threaten assimilative capacity of local,
regional, and global environments
• Too dense: Concentration of energy use
and pollution in densely populated urban
areas
• Too slow: Rates of change in energy
systems are 3-10 decades and need early,
anticipatory innovation and investments