European Commission President Ursula von der
Leyen announced hotly anticipated European
Green Deal on 11 October 2019, and on 11 December she
outlined a long list of policy initiatives to support Green Deal,
including major policy area:
Clean energy - Opportunities for
alternative, cleaner sources of energy
Sustainable industry - Ways to
ensure more sustainable, more environmentally respectful production cycles
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Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate that global emissions of carbon dioxide from the energy sector stalled in 2014, marking the first time in 40 years in which there was a halt or reduction in emissions of the greenhouse gas that was not tied to an economic downturn. In the 40 years in which the IEA has been collecting data on carbon dioxide emissions, there have only been three times in which emissions have stood still or fallen compared to the previous year, and all were associated with global economic weakness: the early 1980's; 1992 and 2009. In 2014, however, the global economy expanded by 3%. The IEA attributes the halt in emissions growth to changing patterns of energy consumption in China and OECD countries. In China, 2014 saw greater generation of electricity from renewable sources, such as hydropower, solar and wind, and less burning of coal. In OECD economies, recent efforts to promote more sustainable growth – including greater energy efficiency and more renewable energy – are producing the desired effect of decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions. Read more at https://www.iea.org
In the new book, The Green Industrial Revolution (GIR): Energy, Engineering and Economics, published by Reed/Elsevier (late 2014), authors, Woodrow Clark and Grant Cooke, state that GIR is even more significant to the world's future than the original 18th century Industrial Revolution, because our children and grand children's lives are at stake. Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com
The Caribbean
Development Bank (CDB)) has made energy sustainability in the region as one
of its priorities. In 2014, the Bank issued a report
“A New Paradigm for Caribbean Development:
Transitioning to a Green Economy”, which analyses the options to make a transition
to increased energy efficiency and use of renewable energy.
