Blue and Green: Trillion-dollar shifts in investments are needed to scale up the use of renewable energy sources if runaway climate change is to be prevented, a UN report has warned.
Published today after a week of deliberations in Berlin, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) new report attempts to explain how global warming can be limited to 2C from pre-industrial levels the point above which scientists fear a number of climate tipping points will be crossed.
Without mitigation, scientists...