International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook
Wed, Nov 11, 2009
Scoop International reports an upcoming climate conference in Copenhagen, where Greenpeace & IEA call for action on global warming and climate issues.
It is now clear that an unchanged energy policy - the IEA’s ‘business as usual’ scenario - will lead to catastrophic climate impacts and a temperature rise of about 6°C. While the IEA’s rhetoric on climate change improves every year, it still offers no solution. The proposed energy mix in the IEA’s ‘climate scenario’ - the 450ppm scenario - continues to rely on unproven technology, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) for coal-fired power stations, and nuclear power.
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