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Investing in the Clean Trillion: Closing the Clean Energy Investment Gap

Investing in the Clean Trillion: Closing the Clean Energy Investment Gap

Full Title:  Investing in the Clean Trillion: Closing the Clean Energy Investment Gap
Author(s): Mark Fulton, Reid Capalino
Publisher(s): Ceres
Publication Date: January 1, 2014
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In 2010 world governments agreed to limit the increase in global temperature to two degrees Celsius (2 °C) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. To have an 80 percent chance of maintaining this 2 °C limit, the IEA estimates an additional $36 trillion in clean energy investment is needed through 2050—or an average of $1 trillion more per year compared to a “business as usual” scenario over the next 36 years.

This Ceres report provides 10 recommendations for investors, companies and policymakers to increase annual global investment in clean energy to at least $1 trillion by 2030—roughly a four-fold jump from current investment levels.

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