Significant impacts resulting
from climate change are already
evident, and they pose increasing
risks for many vulnerable populations and regions.
It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity
from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of
climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great
risks again became
evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).