IEA: Rapid pivot to clean technologies essential to meet global climate goals

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Alignment with Paris Agreement remains long way off but investment in energy efficiency, offshore wind, and battery storage could yet place countries on a sustainable course, IEA declares in World Energy Outlook 2019

Humanity stands at a fork in the road. The global economy's current trajectory will see it drastically overshoot climate targets as coal and oil remain central to energy generation right through the 2030s...

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