I have written a great deal about the terrific work of McKinsey & Company (see “McKinsey 2008 Research in Review: Stabilizing at 450 ppm has a net cost near zero” and links below).

So I was excited and delighted to be invited by The German Marshall Fund to be the respondent for a roundtable discussion Monday in DC (details below) on their updated cost-curve, which I have an early glimpse of for Climate Progress readers [click to enlarge]:

Nobody has as detailed a set of “bottom up” numbers as McKinsey — though I certainly have some issues with their work.  Too little concentrated solar thermal power — and it is not a little cheaper than PV, it’s a lot bigger.

Anyway here are details of the event, in case you are in DC and can make it.  And again, I’d be interested in ideas for responses or questions to McKinsey.

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The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE)””an Oakland-based non-profit””announced this week the start of its grassroots initiative “aimed at educating and empowering students to address global climate change.” These are noble goals, to say the least. It is hard to overstate the importance of informing the public about the realities of global warming and the consequences of not changing our energy consumption habits. ACE’s campaign will target high school-age youths””a smart strategy considering younger generations will inherit the climate that their parents leave behind.

There are other reasons why America’s youth are crucial to establishing a societal movement towards a clean energy economy. Young people are able to develop an intuitive understanding of global warming’s problems and solutions before their thoughts and habits are cemented in the modern routine of high-energy consumption. Youth movements can be especially potent forces in altering popular perceptions and influencing congressional representatives. Michael Haas, the founder of ACE, seems to understand this and has set his organization’s goals accordingly. He says:

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