Uhuru Kenyatta, the Kenyan president, said that Kenya was already tackling emissions through a renewable energy push that includes wind, geothermal, hydro and, in the future, solar power.
But Texas' renewable energy push has "been eclipsed by the effect of fracking," said Representative Mark Strama, Democrat of Austin, referring to the drilling technology that prompted the natural gas boom.
Labor issued a series of media releases accusing the government of maintaining "its attacks on renewable energy", pushing ahead with the "Americanisation of Australian universities" and clinging to "billions of dollars in further health cuts".
Officials say the renewables push has helped, not hurt, the economy.
Many governments, especially in Europe, are concerned climate policies, such as generous support for renewables, push up energy bills for consumers, a major political issue in countries such as Britain.
The public overwhelmingly support a much more ambitious scheme to push renewable energy for homes and communities, a new poll shows today ahead of a key government announcement next week.
PAGE A21 HOME-GROWN POWER President Obama is wise to push renewable energy and new "smart grids" for distributing it, Ian Bowles, the Massachusetts secretary of energy, writes in an Op-Ed article.
Burke suggested that climate-friendly policies, like switching to renewable energy, could push reality closer to the RCP4.5 scenario.
With upcoming changes in policy and abandoning the Paris Agreement, we will return to the pumping of fossil fuels instead of harnessing renewable energy and push our climate to a point of no return.
Although he gave no explicit clue to his intentions on Cape Wind at Wednesday's briefing, he did say that pushing renewable energy was one of President Obama's top priorities.
