Analysis by FT describes the new IPCC report as the most comprehensive analyis of what can be done to ward off dangerous levels of warming since the Paris climate accord was agreed in 2015.
The study shows prices of green alternatives to fossil fuels have not merely dipped, but plunged. Between 2010 and 2019, solar power and lithium ion battery costs fell by 85 per cent, while wind energy dropped by 55 per cent. Solar panels and wind turbines can now compete with fossil-fuelled power generation in many places and the deployment of green technologies has ballooned.
The science of climate change is now well understood, as are the technical solutions. The larger problem is politics. After more than a century of unsustainable energy and land use, the world has begun to turn. New ways of shifting even faster must now be found.