A new report, ‘Good Energy, Bad Energy: Transforming the Energy System for People and the Planet,’ makes the case for the urgent transformation of the global energy system but says that in order to achieve the necessary change a complete democratic upheaval must also take place. In the context of continuous and stark warnings by the world’s leading scientists about the scale of the planetary emergency of climate change, the report calls for immediate and fundamental changes. “Averting the worst consequences of climate change requires an urgent and drastic reduction of the greenhouse gases emitted by our energy system. This will not happen unless we stop dirty energy corporations and the destructive energy sources and false solutions they are peddling,” said Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth International coordinator of the Climate Justice and Energy Programme. She added: “This is fundamentally an issue of changing the balance of power: of stopping corporate and elite interests outweighing the power of ordinary citizens and communities.”
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 10:50:56 +0000