United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report Released
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“World hurtling toward critical global warming benchmark, but IPCC report highlights clean energy potential”
From Utility Dive:
Senior Reporter
Dive Brief:
The world is likely to breach a critical global warming benchmark — temperatures rising 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — sometime after 2030, according to a report released Monday by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, known as the IPCC.
Limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change is possible with a rapid rollout of clean energy technologies and shift from fossil fuels, experts say. “Proactive and collaborative planning is needed across all sectors,” according to Steven Rose, principal research economist for the Electric Power Research Institute and a review editor for the IPCC’s report.
For the electric sector, demand-side management technologies could play a major role in managing greenhouse gas emissions, the IPCC found. Widespread electrification could add 60% to electricity demand by 2050, according to the report, but the increase could be “avoided through demand-side mitigation options.”
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