Climate change efforts still 'not nearly enough' to meet Paris targets
A new clean energy report has a mixed outlook for the future: Wind and solar power will soar in coming decades, but we'll still be heading toward dangerous levels of global warming.
The big takeaway from Bloomberg New Energy Finance's (BNEF) latest analysis is that, despite the explosive growth we'll see in renewables — thanks to plummeting prices and improving technology — our current efforts simply aren't sufficient to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the long-term.
This is true regardless of whether President Donald Trump pulls the United States from the international Paris Agreement on climate change, though certainly it will be even harder to reduce emissions if that happens, said Colleen Regan, a BNEF analyst who contributed to the new report. Read more...
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