A decline in fossil fuel power is now ‘inevitable’, the report’s authors say.

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    the bad news is:

    Clean power sources have already helped to slow the growth in fossil fuels by almost two-thirds in the last 10 years.

    at first that sounds great but what that really means is fossil fuel use is still increasing; that 30% figure does not tell the whole story.

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      4 months ago

      If the data is correct, these are the last years of fossil growth - from now on, renewables will be outpeacing the growing demand