If there is one certainty in our world’s coronavirus-altered reality – beyond that no prediction is worth the paper it is written on – it is that the shift in the global energy system from fossil fuels to renewables is now set to be more a transformation than a transition. Powering the planet on coal, oil and gas, as we have done since the Industrial Revolution, has come to an end.
Coronavirus should herald an end to an energy system that puts profit over planet
In our Covid-19-altered reality, the overarching certainty is that the shift in the global energy system from fossil fuels to renewables must now be a transformation more than a transition, writes Darius Snieckus
8 April 2020 22:36 GMT
Updated
13 April 2020 8:40 GMT
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