Posted on 05/20/2020 1:36:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) -- The International Energy Agency on Wednesday called on governments to put clean energy at the heart of their coronavirus economic recovery plans, as it forecast the first slowdown in new renewable power installations worldwide in two decades.
The IEA warned that lockdown measures -- which at their peak affected more than half the world’s population -- would have "far-reaching" consequences, as the world grapples with a crisis that has sent energy demand plummeting and threatens a deep economic contraction.
The agency, which had expected 2020 to be a bumper year for green energy, slashed its two-year forecast for growth in renewable capacity by nearly 10 percent.
It cited supply chain disruptions, construction delays, social distancing measures and financing challenges.
The IEA said the crisis opens a window of opportunity in aviation if governments include environmental conditions in bailout packages, noting the 2 percent sustainable aviation fuel requirement in a rescue proposal for Air France-KLM.
Experts said the crisis could provide an opportunity for green energy to permanently take the place of highly polluting fossil fuels like coal.
"We may come out of COVID with emissions going down, since renewables have been able to take more relative space, pushing out some of the worst of fossil fuels," Glen Peters, Research Director, at the Center for International Climate Research told AFP.
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Of course becaause as we go into a new ice age...
These @$$holes are starting to sound like Amway salesmen. Everything points back to their agenda, no matter what it is.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
The world is already under an unpresented threat from a pandemic unseen for over a century, with millions unemployed and $trillions in losses. So now these idiots at the IEA want to further kneecap it with unachievable pipe dreams about energy production?
So we did without oil for this period of time, we can do this!, idiots
Some days I wouldn’t mind watching some annoying people eating their own hands.
In as much as energy production and use in all its forms has had absolutely nothing to do with the Wuhan Virus pandemic, this nonsense:
“The International Energy Agency on Wednesday called on governments to put clean energy at the heart of their coronavirus economic recovery plans”,
shows how the ideas of the International Energy Agency have become more about political agendas than energy.
The comments were pretty much all right on the money. What does the covid-19 situation have to do with “green energy”?
For that matter, what does “green energy” have to do with supplying the world’s energy needs? Very little, & what there is is wasteful, inadequate, & too expensive. Don’t these people ever learn? I could point them to some good information on the subject, but i don’t suppose they would read it.
Let’s recap: The world’s economy is on its knees; The price of oil is at a historic low; The low price of energy will help the recovery of the world’s economy.
The conclusion is to avoid oil and use ‘Green Energy’ thereby crushing the oil industry while tripling the cost of energy to cash strapped businesses.
In other News World organizations like WHO and the UN demand more funding while Governments grapple the inexplicable drop in tax revenues.
Makes ya wonder the depths of Hell some will descend to in pursuit of their agenda and its fulfillment...
and who they have no problem dragging along for the ride.
But...but...but...they’re experts!
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