Stop blowing a lot of hot air: A sustainable future needs more than renewable energy

Improve existing infrastructure for a better future

Renewable sources accounted for 11% of the global energy mix in 2019, and will continue to be crucial to combat the threat of climate change.

However, the belief that simply increasing renewable power generation will 'fix' this global problem is a dangerous assumption to make. Governments around the world have been keen to extol the virtues of their renewable energy commitments. Only recently did we see Boris Johnson pledge £160m to develop an extra 10GW of capacity in the UK's offshore wind farms by 2030. The final awakening: Race to zero carbon economy receives significant boost from two major forces In Australia, the government has boasted of plans to add 6.3GW of capacity to its energy system this year, equivalent to...