Report claims that despite significant biomass support, government sustainability compliance evaluation is inadequate.
Survey finds only half of Brits have heard of heat pumps!
The photovoltaic market is growing. In Europe alone, the cumulative installed PV capacity amounted to 151.7 GW by the end of 2020. And the trend continues. By 2024, the SolarPower Europe association expects an installed capacity of 253 gigawatts.
It is regarded as ‘a code red for humanity’ but the report also confirms that heavy reductions in global carbon emissions would limit climate change overall; with air quality improving rapidly and global temperatures taking between 20 to 30 years to stabilise – so not all hope is lost.
Just a few days after the US officially withdrew the Paris agreement, newly elected president, Joe Biden, pledged to enter them back into it immediately, whilst also committing a colossal $2tn investment to a ‘green recovery’. Even prior to his election share prices for the solar/wind energy company NextEra exceeded the market value of oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron signalling a shift in the zeitgeist.
Futurebuild 2020 (March 3-5, ExCel London) drew to a close with a powerful call to action for the renewables and allied sectors to work more closely together to fight climate change.