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Potential of Renewable Energies: a IPPC Report
18 May 2011
IPCCClose to 80 percent of the world's energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies a new report shows.

The findings, elaborated by over 120 leading experts from all over the world for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III, also indicate that the rising penetration of renewable energies could lead to cumulative greenhouse gas savings which could contribute towards a goal of sustaining the global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius, an aim recognized in the United Nations Climate Convention's Cancun Agreements.

The outputs of the research, presented on May 9 after being approved by member countries of the IPCC in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, are contained in a summary for policymakers of the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN). The complete report is due to be published by the end of the month.

The report presents an assessment of literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of the contribution of six renewable energy sources to the mitigation of climate change. It is intended to provide policy relevant information to governments, intergovernmental processes and other interested parties.

During the presentation of the report it was underlined that it is not the availability of the resource, but the public policies that will either expand or constrain renewable energy development over the coming decades.
Developing countries have an important stake in the future of renewables, as they are populated by millions of people who do not have access to electricity but where some of the most favorable conditions for renewable energy deployment exist.

For more information please visit the IPCC website.

Close to 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies a new report shows.

 

The findings, elaborated by over 120 leading experts from all over the world for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III, also indicate that the rising penetration of renewable energies could lead to cumulative greenhouse gas savings which could contribute towards a goal of sustaining the global temperature increase  below 2 degrees Celsius, an aim recognized in the United Nations Climate Convention's Cancun Agreements.

 

The outputs of the research, presented on May 9 after being approved by member countries of the IPCC in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, are contained in a summary for policymakers of the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) (http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/docs/ipcc33/SRREN_FD_SPM_final.pdf).

 The complete report is due to be published by the end of the month.

 

The report presents an assessment of literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of the contribution of six renewable energy sources to the mitigation of climate change. It is intended to provide policy relevant information to governments, intergovernmental processes and other interested parties.

 

During the presentation of the report it was underlined that it is not the availability of the resource, but the public policies that will either expand or constrain renewable energy development over the coming decades.

Developing countries have an important stake in the future of renewables, as they are populated by  millions of people who do not have access to electricity but where some of the most favorable conditions for renewable energy deployment exist.

 

For more information please visit the IPCC website

 

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