Ironically, the UAE, which made its fortunes from the very fossil fuels that pollute the environment, has become in the forefront of nations looking for new paths to renewable energy.
Governments must follow up the many fine words that will be spoken at the UN Sustainable Development Summit with actions that put our world on the path to 100percentt renewables by 2050.
So one city's path to 100percentt renewable energy could look very different from another's.
In my view, the surest and most rapid path to a renewable and sustainable economy is to accommodate mass political demands for greater wealth but also work hard to accelerate the development of more effective, efficient, and less polluting technologies.
TZ: You highlight at the outset of your book that the passionate, either/or posturing that defines today's energy debates has a very long pedigree -- reaching back at least to the oil crises of the 1970s: We must choose either a path to clean, renewable resources, or devote ourselves to full exploitation of finite fossil fuels, whatever the costs.
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But to enable a just development path, we need more fundamental changes than just switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources.
However, on the path to a fully renewable future, this certainly marks a significant milestone".
She's calling for a "Green New Deal" that would put the nation on the path to a 100percentt renewable energy economy, build a national "smart" energy grid, and boost domestic manufacturing and exporting of emerging "green" technologies.
The movement's main goals are to convince legislators to stop taking money from the fossil-fuel industry and to pledge their support for a Green New Deal, a plan which charts a path to a 100percentt renewable energy economy in the 12 years before the effects of climate change become irreversible.
