Yet increased energy efficiency and a focus on wind and solar power, which require less water, or the switch to more water efficient cooling technologies could help avoid this problem, the study shows.
Not exact matches
Yet in order to achieve a low - carbon transition consistent with a 2 °C degree climate pathway, this rate of investment in
energy efficiency, renewables and other low - carbon technologies needs to be
increased markedly by the mid-2020s.
The technology currently available for installing distributed renewable
energy in developing countries can not
yet raise all of the world's poorest to the levels of per capita
energy consumption previously reached in the west, but developed countries are already reducing overall
energy demand and
increasing energy efficiency, rendering historical patterns of
energy usage the wrong benchmark for global standards in any case.
Sanders has no official climate change plan
yet, but also seek to go well beyond Obama climate change policies, with a carbon tax, greatly
increased renewable
energy,
energy efficiency measures, and international leadership by the US.