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Factors that contribute to quality of life: The factors of the climate crisis that are contributing to the quality of life are mostly health risks. A warmer climate is expected to increase the risk of death from extreme heat and poor air quality. Climate change will likely increase the frequency and strength of extreme events (such as floods, droughts, and storms) that threaten human health and safety.
Forms of Globalization: This negative impact of globalisation on climate is mainly due to increased greenhouse gas emissions. The main direct sources of greenhouse gas emissions are power supply, industrial production and transport.
Sustainability and World Views:  The climate crisis has many effects on the sustainability on earth. Not only for humans, but also for animals and their ecosystems. With the changing climate, it will be harder for all species to sustain the changes and adapt to the changing climates.
Demography:  The more people in a population, the higher the demand will be for gas, coal or other fuels mined from earth. When burned, they spew enough carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere to trap warm air inside like a greenhouse.
Migration:  Climate refugees are a subset of environmental migrants who were forced to flee "due to sudden or gradual alterations in the natural environment related to at least one of three impacts of climate change: sea-level rise, extreme weather events, and drought and water scarcity.
Economies: With the changes around the world and the push for clean energy, the economy changes along with it. The production of fossil fuels are a major part of the economy in countries, and the industries could begin to generate less money due to the transition to cleaner energy.  A small increase in global mean temperature would result in net negative market sector in many developing countries and net positive market sector impacts in many developed countries.

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As a native Floridian, I start my mornings with a freshly-squeezed glass of orange juice. And thanks to a distribution network, millions outside of Florida enjoy the same at kitchen tables across America. Now, as we strive to rebuild our economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we should make it just as easy for households to access another essential commodity: renewable energy.

America has abundant sources of wind and solar energy, including in the Sunshine State. Thanks to decades of innovation, solar and wind power are the most affordable ways to power homes and businesses. Clean energy generates zero-emission electricity, which means it can reduce carbon pollution and help us solve the climate crisis, but the lack of infrastructure is holding us back. We can change that, and power our homes and businesses on abundant, lower-cost renewables.

Just as a generation of workers built the interstate highway system, a new generation of clean energy workers can rebuild our economy by expanding renewable energy and creating a national macro grid. According to new research by Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, these efforts would benefit consumers, workers, and the environment in tangible ways, as we help Florida and the rest of America achieve its climate goals. By investing in the grid and enacting strong carbon policy, the new report shows that Florida could see an increase of over 900 percent in electric sector jobs over the next 30 years.

Clean energy has enormous potential beyond the Sunshine State. In fact, 15 states between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River account for 88 percent of America's wind potential - and more than half of America's large-scale solar photovoltaic potential. Building a macro grid can help rural communities boost their local economies and create much-needed jobs, as they export wind and solar energy to bigger cities.

Building out the macro grid east of the Rocky Mountains would unleash up to $7.8 trillion for investment, save consumers over $100 billion in energy bills, and create more than 6 million domestic jobs, according to this new research. Through the right investments and solutions, we could reliably generate over 80 percent of our electricity from wind and solar by 2050, which would go a long way in providing every American with cleaner air.

The new research also shows how transmission infrastructure makes the grid more reliable, which can allow wind and solar to meet electricity demand in every five-minute period of the year, even as they provide 82 percent of our electricity in 2050. Don't believe the critics who claim renewable energy is not reliable; with improved transmission, we can couple wind and solar to meet the vast majority of America's needs.

Increasing wind and solar generation is also a win for Americans and their pocketbooks, as it can lower the average electric bill by more than one-third and save a typical household more than $25 every month. Homes and businesses can expect even more savings if electricity consumption increases due to growth in electric vehicles and electric heating.

Beyond the economic opportunities, investing in clean energy will also protect existing industries, including our citrus industry in Florida. For the past several years, Florida's agricultural sector has been hit hard by climate-fueled extreme weather, which puts workers and local businesses at risk. The changing climate has also exacerbated the spread of diseases that lead to major crop losses. Solving the climate crisis can help these industries and improve public health for all Floridians, by reducing or even eliminating harmful air pollutants like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Some of these pollutants have been linked to an increased risk of death from COVID-19, especially in economically-disadvantaged communities and communities of color. A clean energy future can help remedy this.

As chair of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, I'm passionate about finding common-sense climate solutions to help our country move forward. We can create the jobs we need to bounce back and leave a better planet for future generations, all while saving families money on their bills and protecting small businesses. Building a clean and resilient macro grid is at the center of our plan for solving the climate crisis. Over the coming decades, we can make renewable energy available to every American household - just like the juice of the delicious Florida orange.
Castor is chairwoman of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.

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As a native Floridian, I start my mornings with a freshly-squeezed glass of orange juice. And thanks to a distribution network, millions outside of Florida enjoy the same at kitchen tables across America. Now, as we strive to rebuild our economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we should make it just as easy for households to access another essential commodity: renewable energy.

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America is divided on several issues heading into the presidential election, and climate change is one of the most polarizing. As a lifelong conservative, businessman and person of faith, I have a unique point of view to share on this subject.

There is nothing about conservative values that should cause us to brush off climate change as a liberal concept.

I grew up in a conservative household where the environment was given its due respect. We all had a role to play in not polluting our land, air and water. Both Republicans and Democrats supported legislation to keep us safe and healthy.

Unfortunately, this changed in 2000 with the George W. Bush v. Al Gore presidential election. And it became even more political in 2008 when Barack Obama became president and supported clean energy.

The reflexive muscle of the Republican Party opposed the science of climate change without giving it the proper consideration.

Then the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. Next my daughter developed an acute case of asthma. And I attended my first sustainability conference. And I started reading about the science of climate change.

Fast forward 10 years and my company, Melink Corporation, has two net-zero energy headquarters, a fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles for our employees, and I live in a net-zero energy home and drive an electric car powered by solar energy. And these measures not only save us energy and money; they have made us a leader in our community and industry.

Why am I sharing this story?

We need to shift our economy from one based on fossil fuels to one based on clean energy by 2030. Climate scientists agree we are fast approaching the point of no return when global average temperatures will continue rising every year.

Droughts and wildfires as well as storms and hurricanes will continue increasing in frequency and severity unless we stop emitting billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.

The good news is many of the largest and most successful companies in the world like Apple, Google, Facebook and Walmart are equally committed to becoming part of the solution. And there are simple things that we as a country and as ordinary citizens can do to become part of the solution, too.
Steps we can and should take at the national level:
- Rejoin the Paris Climate Treaty. This would put the U.S. back in its rightful leadership role with the almost 200 nations still committed to this treaty for the purpose of mitigating the effects of climate change.

- Put a price on carbon. This would level the playing field between the fossil fuel and clean energy industries because polluters would finally have to pay for the damage they are causing to not only our environment, but our economy, security, and health.
Steps we can and should take at the business and individual level:
- Subscribe to the green energy option with your electric utility. Do so i f you are not in the position to install solar panels on your home or business rooftop. This will require your utility to purchase clean energy from a solar or wind farm for you.

- Buy an electric vehicle the next time you are in the market for a car. Gain the benefits of a smoother ride, faster acceleration, lower energy costs, and less maintenance. Once you do, you won't go back.

Embracing a clean energy economy is completely aligned with conservative values and principles. The U.S. is uniquely capable with its penchant for innovation and free markets to unleash new technologies and scale them to solve the climate crisis.

But if we let the fossil fuel industry continue brainwashing our politicians, we will either risk the gravest consequences of climate change or let China win the clean energy revolution.

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An aggressive push towards 100% renewable energy would save Americans as much as $321bn in energy costs, while also slashing planet-heating emissions, according to a new report.

Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, has vowed to eliminate greenhouse gases from the US power grid within 15 years and essentially zero out emissions by 2050, a plan assailed by Donald Trump as costly and detrimental to the American economy.

But a new analysis by Rewiring America, an energy policy organization, finds that households would benefit financially from a complete switch to clean energy sources such as solar and wind. More than 40% of energy emissions are determined by appliances in and around the home, according to the report, such as heating, electricity, refrigeration and car use.

Should all of these related factors be fully electrified and sourced from clean energy, households could save as much as $321bn in energy costs, the report finds, or up to $2,500 a household a year. Households would be faced with the upfront costs of installing solar panels and electric devices such as stovetops and heat pumps, but Rewiring America says strong government assistance for renewables would help deliver long-term savings.

"If we electrify everything, the savings are more than enough to return money to households," said Adam Zurofsky, executive director of Rewiring America. "Too often we are told doing the right thing for the environment requires sacrifice and costs more. But no one is talking about the upside - we can actually make a better economy and save people money and a byproduct will be to cut emissions from residential buildings."

Much of the savings are derived from reducing the wasted energy involved in digging up and delivering fossil fuel-based power to homes. By taking measures such as backing mortgage-style payments for solar panels to lessen reliance upon the grid, the federal government can make it "dirt cheap" for people to switch to renewables, Zurofsky said. Solar is now the "cheapest source of electricity in history", according to the International Energy Agency, with the US consuming a record amount of renewable energy last year.

Such a scenario would be difficult given the required ramp-up in solar across US towns and cities, according to Brian Snyder, an energy and environment expert at Louisiana State University. "We would need to build an electrical generation system on top of our roofs that is the same size as contemporary US generation," he said.

Issues in the supply chain and patchier generation in less sunny parts of the country would compound this challenge, Snyder added.

Zurofsky said the technical potential of rooftop solar comes from the federal government's own estimates and was feasible. "That does not mean it will be easy to do or that we won't have to stretch our existing capacities to make it happen," he said, adding that the report aimed to show "what the future can look like if we are motivated to make it so".

Biden has outlined a $2tn plan to combat the climate crisis, which he has called an "existential threat" to the US. The plan envisions the creation of millions of jobs in renewable energy, the retrofitting and weatherization of homes and commercial buildings to improve their energy efficiency and a boost to the nascent electric vehicle market.

Trump, who has consistently dismissed the realities of climate science, has derided Biden's agenda as something that would "kill" existing energy jobs in the US.

But it appears that American voters are broadly in favor of bolder action to address global heating in the wake of a brutal year of wildfires and hurricanes that scientists say are being fueled by the climate crisis. A New York Times and Siena College poll this week found that two-thirds of voters approve of Biden's plan, with overwhelming support for the policies among younger voters.

Snyder said the Biden plan is "probably the most ambitious yet plausible plan I've seen" on the climate crisis.

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An aggressive push towards 100% renewable energy would save Americans as much as $321bn in energy costs, while also slashing planet-heating emissions, according to a new report. Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, has vowed to eliminate greenhouse gases from the US power grid within 15 years and essentially zero out emissions by 2050, a plan assailed by Donald Trump as costly and detrimental to the American economy.

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In the aftermath of New York Climate Week and the many new commitments announced to address both climate mitigation and adaptation, it is important to focus on the challenge of accelerating the clean energy transition in the Asia-Pacific region. Although global energy-related emissions flattened in 2019 to an estimated 34.2 gigatons (GT), and the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an estimated 7.7 percent decrease in emissions over the first six months of 2020, Asia-Pacific emissions increased by 2.4 percent in 2019 compared to 2018 and accounted for 50.5 percent of global CO ₂ energy-related emissions.

Many scientific studies have concluded that large emissions reductions are needed to mitigate the growing adverse impacts of climate change. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Emissions Gap 2019 report states: "By 2030, emissions would need to be 25 percent and 55 percent lower than in 2018 to put the world on the least-cost pathway to limiting global warming to below 2˚C and 1.5°C respectively."

It has been almost five years since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement. Between 2016 and 2019 and before the COVID-19 economic collapse, global energy CO ₂ emissions grew by over 1.3 GT. Of this increase, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for three-quarter s of the global total, with China responsible for 75 percent of the region's total.

Although the European Union (EU) and major companies like BP have embraced a net-zero carbon emissions target for 2050, a broader US and global effort, especially from Asian governments, is needed to achieve this goal. Even the ambitious International Energy Agency Sustainable Development Scenario does not envision net-zero global emissions being reached until 2070.

Although the pandemic has decreased energy consumption, especially for oil transport fuels, fossil fuel consumption remains persistently high; in 2019, fossil fuels represented 84 percent of global primary energy consumption. That year, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 45 percent of global fossil fuel use and 77 percent of global coal consumption. While the share of both natural gas and renewables in primary energy consumption has grown at the expense of coal in the United States and Europe, the resulting emissions reductions have not been enough to compensate for rising emissions in the Asia-Pacific region. Over the past decade, Asia-Pacific countries saw a 5.4 percent annual increase in electricity generation, with coal maintaining a dominant share of nearly 60 percent in the total mix.

A major complication for the Asia-Pacific clean energy transition is that coal plants in the region are relatively new, operating on average for only fifteen years. Many of these plants are of supercritical and ultra-super critical design and are much more efficient than the older subcritical plants operating in the United States and Europe. The problem is therefore one of continuing CO ₂ emissions from existing regional coal plants as well as a need to build new zero-emission plants to meet rising energy demand.

What does this mean for the next US presidential administration and its policy and programs in the Asia-Pacific region?

The Obama Administration implemented a "pivot to Asia" policy and pursued a US-Asia-Pacific Comprehensive Energy Partnership initiative following the 2012 East Asia Summit. And the Trump Administration has espoused a Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy that includes the small Asia Enhancing Development and Growth through Energy (EDGE) program. But the next administration will need to step up its efforts in order to help Asian allies develop the capabilities and enabling environments necessary to attract additional clean energy investment. Although Obama was able to enlist China's cooperation in the negotiation of the Paris Climate Agreement, growing tensions with China under the Trump Administration have created a much different backdrop. And despite Chinese President Xi Ping's recent pledge to achieve national carbon-neutrality by 2060, China's funding of Asian coal plant development as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, estimated at over $60 billion for current projects in South and Southeast Asia alone, represents a significant obstacle to a clean energy transition in the region.

Japan and South Korea are also major financiers of coal power plants in South and Southeast Asia. Japan reportedly has provided as much as $14 billion for such projects in Indonesia, Vietnam, India, and Bangladesh, but the government has indicated that it will tighten regulations governing its support for overseas coal power projects in the face of growing international criticism. South Korea has provided $5.7 billion in export financing for coal projects in Vietnam and Indonesia and is pursuing over 7 gigawatts (GW) of future projects. South Korea's parliament has been debating the country's policy on coal financing, and in late July 2020, legislation was introduced to ban public financing for overseas coal projects.

The United States and its European allies should focus on working with Japan and South Korea to encourage change in these coal export financing policies and to help facilitate the clean energy transition in both South and Southeast Asia. These regions are of growing energy and economic importance. For example, the Association of Southeast Asian Nation's (ASEAN) gross domestic profit (GDP) was two-thirds that of China's in 2019 at $9.3 trillion, and it has nearly doubled since 2010. ASEAN's aggregate population is expected to grow to 721 million by 2030, while South Asia, with a GDP of $3.6 trillion in 2019, is projected to have a population of 2.1 billion by 2030.

US energy diplomacy, trade, and investment efforts in South and Southeast Asia should give special attention to the big coal consumers India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, but governments in Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and other Southeast Asian countries are also pursuing coal power development. However, national energy policies in the Asia-Pacific region have begun to trend towards greater diversification in the electricity generation mix due to pollution concerns, declining renewable energy costs, and the increasing availability of floating storage regasification units and liquified natural gas (LNG). The United States should support these diversification efforts through the Development Finance Corporation, Export-Import Bank, US Trade and Development Agency, United States Agency for International Development, and Millennium Challenge Corporation.

While the next administration should continue to promote increased LNG and natural gas use as a substitute for baseload coal and a complement to intermittent renewables, it should also give higher priority to energy efficiency. In the face of expanding Asian urbanization and exploding demand for air conditioning, energy efficiency for buildings and better coordination of power sector planning and building energy management is especially important. To this end, future US efforts should draw upon the Department of Energy's Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings program.

Another promising area for cooperation, already underway at both the public and private sector levels, is the development and deployment of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). These advanced reactors are being designed to provide flexible, carbon-free power for electricity systems with high levels of renewable and intermittent power. As the rapid global commercialization of solar photovoltaic and wind technologies in the 1990s illustrates, the deployment of SMRs and their rapid adoption in the 2030s-2040s could be critical in the Asia-Pacific context. The US government should support both technological and commercial cooperation on SMRs between American, Japanese, and South Korean companies. Through collaboration, US, Japanese, and Korean firms can work together to develop a common approach that can compete with Chinese and Russian efforts in the advanced nuclear space. Such cooperation has already begun between NuScale and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. as they work together on their 60 megawatt (MW) advanced light-water modular system, and Terrapower and GE Hitachi recently announced their collaboration on a "Natrium™" 345 MW sodium fast reactor and molten salt power thermal storage system.

In sum, even with major emissions reductions in the United States and EU, the world has little chance of achieving global net-zero emissions by 2070, much less 2050, without significant changes to the Asia-Pacific energy mix. But aggressive emissions reduction measures in the United States are certainly essential to restoring US international credibility on climate change, and a stronger foreign policy push is also critical to restoring US international climate leadership. The next US administration should pursue a well-funded "whole of government" presidential initiative, applying lessons from Obama's Power Africa program, to work with Asia-Pacific countries on viable clean energy strategies and projects within a revived US multilateral trade, aid, and investment approach.

Dr. Robert F. Ichord, Jr. is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center.

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1. Spatial Significance
-What factors have influenced the climate crisis?
-Has clean energy always been so important?
2. Patterns and Trends
-How has the distribution of clean energy helped fight the climate crisis?
3. Interrelationships
-What is linked to the cause of the climate crisis?
4. Geographic Perspective
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Solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, and geothermal power can provide energy without the planet-warming effects of fossil fuels.

In any discussion about climate change, renewable energy usually tops the list of changes the world can implement to stave off the worst effects of rising temperatures. That's because renewable energy sources such as solar and wind don't emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

Clean energy has far more to recommend it than just being "green." The growing sector creates jobs, makes electric grids more resilient, expands energy access in developing countries, and helps lower energy bills. All of those factors have contributed to a renewable energy renaissance in recent years, with wind and solar setting new records for electricity generation.

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Can 100% renewable energy power the world? - Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei

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Climate change is the major environmental challenge of our time. Working in the United States and key countries around the world, NRDC is advocating for deep cuts to carbon pollution by ending our dependence on dangerous, climate-warming fossil fuels that pollute the air and water and harm public health and communities. We're working for clean energy solutions that will lower consumer energy bills, create jobs, and build our economy. The good news is that we know how to meet U.S. carbon reduction goals using proven and innovative technologies, primarily by accelerating the use of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and electric vehicles and by getting carbon out of our buildings and factories. Through these strategies, we can ensure that clean energy is affordable and accessible to all while making communities and ecosystems more resilient to the unavoidable effects of climate change. We are thought leaders and advocates for using a broad range of effective legal, policy, and technology tools to combat all forms of climate change pollution. By partnering with a diverse array of stakeholders-including consumer advocates, environmental justice groups, labor, utilities, the business community, and military voices-we aim to build broad support for climate and clean energy solutions.

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The Big Solutions

We focus on the global initiatives and transformative strategies needed to advance rapidly scalable clean energy solutions, such as smarter energy use, renewable technologies, and the electrification of transportation and buildings. To achieve our goals, we use an array of policy tools ranging from standards for efficiency and clean energy to carbon pollution limits to market-transformation initiatives-such as our successful advocacy to move the lighting market from inefficient light bulbs to superefficient LEDs. With a team that includes lawyers, scientists, economists, engineers, and advocates, we seek solutions at all levels: state, local, federal, and international.

Pushing for U.S. Climate Leadership

At the federal level, NRDC's lawyers are at the forefront of the fight to stop President Trump from rolling back key climate, clean air, and clean energy policies. We are working to preserve groundbreaking U.S. climate policies like the Clean Power Plan, which placed the first-ever federal carbon limits on power plants, as well as the successful national clean car standards, which have cut carbon pollution from tailpipes and saved Americans money at the pump. NRDC is also defending energy efficiency standards that cut pollution and lower consumer energy bills. We are leading the opposition to dangerous Trump administration proposals to force consumers to subsidize dirty and risky coal plants, and we're taking on high-carbon bioenergy, which only undercuts climate progress. We are also fighting efforts to roll back key protections to reduce climate " super pollutants " such as methane pollution from the oil and gas industry and hydrofluorocarbons, which are chemicals used for cooling and refrigeration that both speed up climate change and harm the ozone layer in our atmosphere.

We have worked for decades to ensure enforcement of the Clean Air Act, the landmark law enacted in 1970 to protect our health and our environment from dangerous air pollution. Under that law, NRDC has won huge battles to cut lung-destroying smog in our cities; clean up our power plants, cars, and factories; stop acid rain; and save the ozone layer.

Our federal team also works to reduce the environmental, public health, and proliferation risks of nuclear power and advocates for smarter federal regulation of electricity markets and the electricity grid.

Looking to the future, we are using our scientific, economic, and legal expertise to prepare for the next Congress and presidential administration so that we can present climate and clean energy leaders with a clear path forward to help avert the worst effects of climate change.

State and Local Progress

Working in states across the country is crucial to making progress toward our climate and clean energy goals, especially given the rollbacks being pursued at the federal level. To reduce carbon pollution and clean up the electricity grid, we work with legislatures and utility commissions in key states for strong clean energy and climate policies. To accelerate the transition to clean energy, we advocate for states to adopt smarter regulation of utilities and the power grid and policies to make sure that workers and communities benefit from the transition. In addition to continued progress on the East and West coasts, recent coalition wins include Colorado's adoption of clean car standards and clean energy advances in the Midwest.

NRDC is working to build regional and state carbon markets and carbon reduction policies. We played a key role in developing and strengthening the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the combined effort of nine Northeast states to limit carbon pollution from the power sector, and we're advocating for other states to join. Our team is now working with a coalition of Northeast and mid-Atlantic states on a plan to cut carbon pollution from the transportation sector. In the West, we led the advocacy for California's landmark economy-wide program to limit carbon pollution from the power, transportation, and industrial sectors. We also work at the state level to phase out greenhouse gas super-pollutants.

Recognizing that many mayors are climate champions and that cities are important drivers of clean energy, we work to accelerate the clean energy transition at the local level and leverage that work with our state and federal advocacy.

NRDC's Climate & Clean Energy program has the history, expertise, and vision needed to tackle the biggest challenge of our lifetime-climate change.

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Renewable Energy: A key climate solution

Energy use is changing fast. The shift to renewable sources, however, needs to happen faster, not just in power generation but in heating, buildings and transport, to check the rise in global temperatures.

Renewables could supply four-fifths of the world's electricity by 2050, massively cutting carbon emissions and helping to mitigate climate change. But solar and wind power have to be fully integrated, with sustainable bioenergy providing another key part of the mix.

All this means speeding up innovation in business and technology. Above it all, it means taking action to promote renewable energy today.

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