Climate Action Tracker warns world badly off-track to meet power sector emissions goals

James Murray
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Climate Action Tracker warns world badly off-track to meet power sector emissions goals

New study confirms that no major economy is on track to decarbonise power sector in line with global climate goals

None of the world's major economies are currently on track to decarbonise their power sectors in line with 1.5C warming scenarios, despite record levels of clean energy deployment and increasingly ambitious...

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