Full Title: Roadmap for a Renewable Energy Future
Author(s): International Renewable Energy Agency
Publisher(s): International Renewable Energy Agency
Publication Date: February 1, 2016
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Description (excerpt):
The 2015 United Nations Climate Conference in Paris was a watershed moment for renewable energy. It reinforced what advocates have long argued: that a rapid and global transition to renewable energy technologies offers a realistic means to achieve sustainable development and avoid catastrophic climate change. Now that renewable energy is recognised as central to achieving climate and sustainability objectives, the challenge facing governments has shifted: from identifying what needs to be done, to how best to achieve it.
REmap offers a global plan to double the share of renewables in the world’s energy mix by 2030. This edition updates some of the key findings of its 2014 predecessor. Yet the core message remains consistent: doubling the share of renewables is possible, cost- effective and economically beneficial, even as global energy demand grows. Doing so is one of the main ways countries can meet their international climate-change targets, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.