«A key sticking point in the negotiations during the next two weeks will be finance — specifically, whether developing countries trying to green their
economies will get enough of it to make the
clean energy transition
worth it when coal remains cheaper,» explained Greenwire in its piece on the Gates fund:
Twenty - first century
clean energy technologies are already being designed, built, marketed, and installed to replace more than a century's
worth of entrenched fossil fuel infrastructure, and a recent report by the Department of Commerce indicates that there are nearly 2 million
clean energy jobs in our
economy today, with more on the way.