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At the end of its week-long meeting in Berlin, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which brings together the world’s top energy and climate experts, concluded that preventing catastrophic climate change requires an urgent and fundamental transformation of energy systems around the world.
For Greenpeace, the bottom line is: we have to stop burning coal, oil and gas. And we can. Climate action is an opportunity, not a burden!
Clean, renewable energy is getting bigger, better and cheaper every day and can now provide the solutions the world needs. Renewables are the most economical solution for new power capacity in an ever increasing number of countries.
The “age of renewables” has arrived.
Clean energy is not costly, but inaction is. Costly in terms of lives, livelihoods and economies if governments and business continue to allow climate change impacts to escalate…
