December 6, 2002—Stanford University in California has unveiled an approach to addressing one of the world’s most challenging energy and environmental issues, global climate change.
The university has entered into a multimillion-dollar collaboration among leaders of the global scientific and engineering communities and major corporations, including ExxonMobil, General Electric, and Schlumberger. The collaboration is known as the Global Climate and Energy Project. Stanford University, as manager of the project, will identify preeminent scientific researchers from around the world who will work with the private sector sponsors to conduct research into low greenhouse gas emission energy technologies of the future.
Specifically, the project will work to:
- Identify the most promising technologies for low emissions, high efficiency energy supply and identify barriers to the application of these new technologies on a global basis;
- Conduct research into overcoming barriers to a wide range of promising existing and new technologies and to accelerate their commercial application globally;
- Identify potential solutions to cost, performance, safety, regulatory, legal, and consumer acceptance barriers to widespread adoption of next-generation energy technologies; and
- Share and publicize research results to a wide audience, including academic and commercial research scientists, media, business, governments, and potential end users.
