Sign up to receive the Green Daily newsletter in your inbox every weekday.Ours is a global society accustomed to eternal debate and marginal change distributed over many years. But it won’t do in the era of climate change.That’s the message of the International Energy Agency’s “Net Zero by 2050” report. The energy transition, the historically staid body says, is an all-hands-on-deck crisis that “hinges on asingular, unwavering focus from all governments—working together with one another, and with businesses, investors and citizens.”The report is chock full of numbers. Reaching the net-zero target, according to IEA modeling, starts with spending $820 billion on electric grids annually by 2030. Increasing the number ofcharging points for electric vehicles to 40 million in the coming decade from 1 million today. Building 20 giga-factories churning out lithium-ion batteries every year for the next decade.And so on.
展开▼
