Energy Transitions Commission: Energy supply and productivity hold key to accelerated decarbonisation

Madeleine Cuff
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In its first tranche of analysis, expert group calls for increased renewables rollout and significant improvements in energy productivity to keep warming under two degrees

As it stands, the national climate action plans delivered at last year's Paris Summit - INDCs in the UN jargon - are not enough to put the world on a pathway to less than two degrees of warming. That has...

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