Cambridge University Professor Lord Martin Rees co-authored a report with leading scientists and economists showing how wealthy nations only need to spend 0.02% of GDP on research into renewables Story Transcript JESSICA DESVARIEUX, PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore. So you may have seen the report from an […]
Author Archives: Lord Martin Rees
Lord Martin Rees is Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and former Master of Trinity College. He has been president of the Royal society (the UK's academy of sciences) and is member of the House of Lords. He has written extensively both about space science and about challenges of the 21st century, including energy and climate change. Rees is also a founding member of the Global Apollo Programme, a major global research programme to make carbon-free baseload electricity less costly than electricity from coal, and to do it within 10 years.

