June 12, 2015 View all news One of the most eye-catching names on Minister Alan Kelly's list of members on the Climate Change Advisory Council yesterday was that of Prof Ottmar Edenhoffer.He's the Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research , and was co-chair of the IPCC's Working Group III on Mitigation for their recently completed Fifth Assessment Report.He gave an EPA lecture in Dublin last October which I was at, which was very impressive. Particularly that his favourite slide was the one showing how much fossil fuels we had to leave under the ground. Click here to start the You Tube video at that bit of his talk .The full talk is embedded at the bottom of this post, but here are my tweets from the night:Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer shows a controversial slide on historical responsibility for GHG emissions #epaclimate pic.twitter.com/cbyYcKEUfS — Oisin Coghlan (@OisinCoghlan) October 6, 2014 "We are currently in a fossil-fuel intensive, business-as-usual scenario" Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer. #epaclimate — Oisin Coghlan (@OisinCoghlan) October 6, 2014 Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer: There is a huge difference in risks [to human well-being] between a world of 2C and 4C global warming. #epaclimate — Oisin Coghlan (@OisinCoghlan) October 6, 2014 To limit global warming to 2C or 3C we need "a fundamental departure from business as usual" emissions - Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer. #epaclimate — Oisin Coghlan (@OisinCoghlan) October 6, 2014 All the cost-effective pathways to limiting global warming to 2C require immediate action. Delaying raises costs - Edenhofer. #epaclimate — Oisin Coghlan (@OisinCoghlan) October 6, 2014 "It does not cost the earth to save the world" - Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer. #epaclimate pic.twitter.com/JrLKq5ssdT— Oisin Coghlan (@OisinCoghlan) October 6, 2014 Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer: Climate action is not fundamentally a technological problem or even an economic one, but a political one #epaclimate — Oisin Coghlan (@OisinCoghlan) October 6, 2014 It will be interesting to see how his perspective influences the analysis and advice the Council give the Government. We shall see. Categorised in: Climate Change