Featured in A new dawn – 12-2018

A call to action

Solar PV has come a long way as a power generation technology. As highlighted in SolarPower Europe’s Global Market Outlook for 2018 to 2022, solar added 98 GW of net generation capacity last year, eclipsing all other forms of electricity generation. But solar needs to do a lot more, and to do it very soon if we want to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and keep global warming to below 1.5°C from pre-industrial levels.

By

Eckhart Gouras

03 Dec 2018

Image: Adani Power

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered its assessment in October of the climate goals agreed at the COP21 conference in Paris about three years ago. The Paris agreement calls for holding global warming below 2°C, while “pursuing efforts” to limit it to the above-mentioned 1.5°C. But as the IPCC makes clear …

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