Sam Kimmins, Director of Energy at Climate Group, comments on today's IEA Global Energy Outlook:
“With increasing electricity demand across the world driven by emerging market growth, AI data centers, the electrification of transport and cooling and heating systems, the world has a very clear choice to make.
We can make the most of trillions of dollars of investment ready to flow into clean, reliable and rapidly deployable technologies. Or we bend the knee to the past — and be trapped into reliance on the subscription model of expensive oil and gas from unreliable regimes, for decades to come.
The spectacular rise of low cost locally powered renewables since the Paris agreement has beaten all expectations. We can't afford to lose direction now.
COP, are you listening?”
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