![]() ![]() In China, the Five-Year Plan of 2021-5 will add 874GW of solar and wind to the electricity grid: a similar size to Europe’s entire electrical network. Worldwide 257 gigawatts (GW) of renewable electricity capacity were installed in 2021, a rise of 9 per cent, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. The shift to clean energy is continuing at record pace. The UK continues to cement its position as a world leader in offshore wind, while in the US the Inflation Reduction Act means American wind capacity should double and solar capacity quadruple by 2030. In the UK, for example, emissions have fallen over 45 per cent since 1990 and about 40 per cent of electricity now comes from renewables. Many of the world’s most developed countries are now consistently recording year-on-year declines in emissions, as their economies have moved away from heavy industry and they have decarbonised their electricity supply. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.We reveal how far the world is from reaching net-zero emissions by the middle of the century, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says is necessary to keep global warming at the “safe” 1.5☌ limit. To mark Cop27 in Egypt in November, the New Statesman is tracking all the latest data on carbon emissions and national pledges to reduce them: the key metrics for assessing climate action. Meanwhile, unprecedented climate disasters, from floods in Pakistan to droughts in China, remind us the climate crisis is intensifying. Russia’s war in Ukraine has reopened fault lines in international relations to an extent not seen since the Cold War, while restrictions on Russian oil and gas have made “energy security” a higher priority than climate policies such as reducing emissions to prevent global warming. Yet following this tentative optimism – that global temperature rises could be limited to 1.5☌ above pre-industrial levels – everything in geopolitics and energy markets changed. A year has passed since the world agreed to “keep 1.5☌ alive” at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow. ![]()
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