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Renewables: the revolution is moving ‘too slowly’

OPINION

If the fight to avoid catastrophic global warming were a football game, then Team Let’s Maybe Not Have an Apocalypse would be stuck on its own two-yard line, trailing by a touchdown with less than a minute to go. Also, the starting quarterback has a torn ACL. A victory is possible but it will take legendary effort.

The International Energy Agency recently released an update of the energy sector’s progress toward reaching net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.

The sector is the world’s

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