Carbon capture and storage technologies would play a minimal role at best in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BERLIN - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg warned on Tuesday that humanity was “rushing towards the cliff” of climate catastrophe, and a new study by think tank Climate Analytics showed that could only be averted by ramping up wind and solar energy installations five times faster and cutting fossil fuels production 6 per cent annually by 2030.
“We’re still rushing towards the cliff and we are at the verge of potential tipping points that once we pass them, there might be no going back,” Ms Thunberg said. The study by Climate Analytics, a global climate science and policy institute started in 2008 and based in Berlin, said global fossil fuel use must drop by around 40 per cent over the decade, with coal falling by 79 per cent.
“As we ramp up renewables, we can’t forget the elephant in the negotiating room - fossil fuels,” Ms Claire Fyson, one of the study’s authors said at a news conference.
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