“The big question,” said Dave Jones, an electricity analyst at Ember, a London-based think tank, is whether countries can increase the pace of renewable energy deployment so that they’re not just bringing down power sector emissions slowly, but “actually enabling deep and rapid carbon dioxide emissions cuts.”
The answer to do this is to provide cheap financing to poor countries, so they built up the grid with renewables instead of coal. That only requires a proper gurantee from a bunch of rich countries to do it and has relativly low risk.
Also Chinas economy looks like it is not growing anymore, if it does not go into a recession. China makes up 30% of global electricity demand so this really matters. So a recession in China can slow down global electricity demand growth and China has been deploying a lot of clean tech. So just keep the deploying part and not growth would mean a decline in coal generation.
Also, it’s important to realize this growth in electricity usage would have happened either way. This is better than 100% fossil fuels.
Is it just me or is that graph showing reducing usage of fossil fuels in everywhere but China and the US?
Definitely not what is happening.
- China: going up
- US: Going down, but slowly
- India: going up
Oh yeah, bit more obvious when I actually read the article, soz
