Renewables will need to make up 70-85% of the world’s power supplies by 2050 to help limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels and avert the dire impacts of a two-degree increase, said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In a major IPCC report, scientists sounded their starkest warning yet that the world urgently needs a “green industrial revolution” to deliver a net zero emissions global economy by 2050.