Clean technology ‘revolution’ the silver lining in climate change gloom: OECD
Posted November 15, 2015 12:35 pm.
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OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says the world has yet to “turn the corner” on addressing climate change but there is room for optimism.
Simon Upton, the OECD’s environmental director, says _ notwithstanding the gloom over the scale of the global issue _ there’s been a quiet “revolution in renewable energy.”
He says the world is beginning to see what a de-carbonized power generation sector would look like.
In advance of the COP21 climate conference in Paris that begins November 30th, the OECD held a media briefing on the state of play in conjunction with the International Energy Agency, the Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Transport Forum.
Some 162 countries have pledged to cut emissions as part of the Paris conference process.
However, climate scientists say the pledges won’t get the international community anywhere near the greenhouse gas reductions required to keep the planet within the 2 C degrees of warming required to avert global climate disruptions.
