How climate action and clean energy can regenerate the next decade

How climate action and clean energy can regenerate the next decade

2020 could prove to be a turning point in the fight to curb global warming.

This depends on what we can achieve in the next 10 years.



This year should mark a turning point in the race to stem the climate crisis and head for a healthier, more resilient and more liveable future.

It was the year that, called to arms by the COVID-19 pandemic, we realised the power we have - as consumers, voters, business owners, investors, policy-makers, philanthropists and humans - to transform the way we live and work for the greater good.

It was the year China surprised the world by setting its sights on climate neutrality by 2060; Japan, South Korea, South Africa, the EU and Canada joined vulnerable countries in aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050; and the US elected a president who campaigned for a clean energy revolution, environmental justice and net-zero by 2050.

Buoyed by these national commitments, 2020 was the year we set ourselves on a path to limit global warming to 2.1°C and brought the Paris Agreement's more ambitious goal of 1.5°C within striking reach, according to Climate Action Tracker.



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