IEA SAYS BOOST RENEWABLES BY 50% TO AVOID CLIMATE CHANGE CALAMITY
October 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD must generate half its electricity supplies from renewable energy sources by 2050 to avoid the most serious climate change, claims a new International Energy Agency report. It praises renewable programmes in Spain, Germany, Denmark and Portugal (wind-power) and China (solar heating). *http://www.iea.org/w/bookshop/add.aspx?id=337
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THE WORLD must generate half its electricity supplies from renewable energy sources by 2050 to avoid the most serious climate change, claims a new International Energy Agency report. It praises renewable programmes in Spain, Germany, Denmark and Portugal (wind-power) and China (solar heating). *http://www.iea.org/w/bookshop/add.aspx?id=337
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