Public policies that recognize and reflect the wider economic, social and environmental benefits of renewable energies, including their potential to stop climate change, to cut air pollution, increase economic growth and improve public health, will be key for meeting the highest possible carbon emission reductions.
The world will get at least three thirds [75%] of its power from renewable sources by 2050.
So says the IPCC and the UN energy commission – but only – if governments make the right decisions and adopt sound PUBLIC POLICIES.
Renewable sources could provide a majority of the world’s energy supplies by 2050, only if governments dramatically increase financial and political support for technologies like wind and solar power. This is the key according to the science experts from a United Nations specialist energy panel said this Monday.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in this report that the availability of renewable sources like wind and sun was virtually unlimited, and could easily provide up to 77 percent of the world’s energy needs by mid-century, but governments needed to adopt sound energy policies to take advantage of them.
“The report shows that it is not the availability of the resource, but the public policies that will either expand or constrain renewable energy development over the coming decades,” said Ramón Madruga – energy scientist, member of the IPCC
Lest you think that this is grandiose UN aspirations alone; here is the proof in the pudding:
Because based on this information and going forward to create sound public policy — Germany has moved today down the path of renewable energy by first shuttering nuclear energy for good, by 2021, and drastically reducing it’s reliance on all other dirty energy sources by shifting massively towards solar and wind tech.
As a matter of fact Germany will reduce it’s coal power generation and the associated emissions by up to 40% by 2020. In ten short years, they will wean themselves off of coal… by mainly focusing on efficiency and renewables.
Yes the good Germans have sharpened their pencils well and run their calculations a few times over too.
And have produced a few excellent spreadsheets along with the engineering blueprints to make this a reality. Just like designing a great automobile, they have now designed great PUBLIC POLICY. The Environmental Parliament submitted just this type of policy last year to the German government when they had their debates about nuclear Energy’s future and had gone down the wrong path momentarily… But now things have changed for the best.
The German government energy commission has just come out and said that this manifest good public policy, is not only possible but rather doable too.
And they are off to a racing start.
Because the prize for those who win this race, is pretty great too…
Yours,
Pano
PS:
The goal of Germany is to spearhead the new industrial revolution of renewable energy and green tech, in order to remain the leading manufacturing economy of the world.
The gauntlet has been thrown…
A good kind of competition era is ushered and world economic domination is at stake.
Anybody listening in Washington?
