Redrawing the Energy Climate Map
World Energy Map. (Courtesy of tqe.quaker.org)
From John Shannon, who writes about green energy, sustainable development and economics. Email him at john[AT]borderstan.com.
Governments have decided collectively that the world needs to limit the average global temperature increase to no more than 2°C and international negotiations are engaged to that end. Yet any resulting agreement will not emerge before 2015 and new legal obligations will not begin before 2020.
Meanwhile, despite many countries taking new action, the world is drifting further and further from the track it needs to follow.
The energy sector is the single largest source of climate-changing greenhouse-gas emissions and limiting these is an essential focus of action. The World Energy Outlook has published detailed analysis of the energy contribution to climate change for many years.
But, amid major international economic preoccupations, there are worrying signs that the issue of climate change has slipped down the policy agenda. This Special Report seeks to bring it right back on top by showing that this dilemma can be tackled at no net economic cost. Access it at WEO Special Report 2013: ES – Redrawing the Energy Climate Map.
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