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Its investments have already helped to lower global prices of renewables.
Others claim that renewables are the way to go.Green energy, especially wind, can indeed help African countries, for example, get some electricity to remote, rural areas; but the grid will do the most good for the most people.
The most optimistic of these predicts that renewables could account for close to 80% of total energy supply by mid-century, thereby cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by around one-third.
Renewables cut air pollution, which is costing the global economy billions of dollars a year in health-care costs alone.
The IPCC assessment points out that renewables are already growing.
But the really big numbers are unlikely to be reached without the kinds of supportive public policies that have catalyzed the expansion of renewables in countries such as China and Germany.
A comprehensive agreement would bring certainty to the carbon markets and strengthen the various mechanisms that are already encouraging renewables in developing economies and pump-priming private-sector investments.
For example, the EU demanded that renewables like wind and solar account for 20% of energy supplies by 2020, though this is by no means the cheapest way to cut emissions.
But it gets worse, because these models still assume that the EU picks the cheapest renewables to fulfill its requirements.
Instead, most EU countries give higher subsidies to the most costly renewables.
In the past decade, the US has reduced its emissions more than any other country, because the fracking revolution has allowed for inexpensive natural gas to replace coal in electricity generation, while preventing a price backlash against renewables.
In order to provide more energy to meet development goals without accelerating global warming, there must be a shift to a new energy infrastructure built around renewables (of which the most significant are probably solar power, wind, and biofuels), cleaner coal, and carbon capture and storage.
This time, moreover, the burden will not fall on one country alone, and a broader mix of traditional and innovative sources of financing are already available to help fund the required investment programs in energy efficiency and renewables.
That is why we need to invest now in other technologies that can complement renewables, and provide reliable electricity for many centuries to come.
Globally, however, solar and wind are only a small part of total renewables – less than 7% in 2010.
The best way to accelerate the transition from hydrocarbons to greener forms of energy would be to redirect a portion of national oil subsidies to renewables.
But while renewables hold the key to Africa’s long-term prosperity, the continent’s transition to cleaner power should not lead to an immediate, full-scale repudiation of hydrocarbons.
The 900 million people of Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) get 80% of their energy from renewables.
In 1800, 94% of all global energy came from renewables, almost all of it wood and plant material.
Since 1971, the share of renewables has bottomed out, standing at around 13.5% today.
The International Energy Agency estimates that if all countries fulfill the pledges made at the Paris climate change conference last month, the proportion of renewables could increase slightly in the next 25 years, to 18.7%.
Few in the rich world would switch to renewables without heavy subsidies, and certainly no one would cut off their connection to the mostly fossil-fuel-powered grid that provides stable power on cloudy days and at night (another form of subsidy).
This would sharply increase the use of fossil fuels, reduce much of the most polluting renewables, and provide energy access to 230 million more people.
Experts agree that it will require a national plan for locating generators across Chile’s mountainous territory, a revamped regime for the transmission of power, more intensive use of natural gas, and a concerted effort to promote renewables, particularly wind and solar.
In Chile, for example, copper mines have been forced to start using desalinated water for extraction, while Sweden’s Boliden sources up to 42% of its energy needs from renewables.
Current investments in energy supply amount to more than $1.6 trillion annually, with $130 billion going to energy efficiency and $250 billion to renewables.
Dam-generated electricity is currently the planet’s largest source of renewable energy, delivering about twice as much power as all other renewables combined.
If Trump is to deliver more jobs and higher incomes to his voters, one vehicle to do so is to promote the green agenda of energy efficiency and renewables.
With mounting concerns about climate change and volatility in oil and other fossil-fuel prices, renewables are finally becoming a viable proposition.
Big business is spending billions of dollars to explore the opportunities that renewables can bring.
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