A world with clean energy is possible in 2050 After two years of preparation, The Energy Report, launched globally today (3 / 2) reveals new insights in regard to the global energy needs, including transportation, energy and providing adequate and safe for everyone. And it would reduce carbon emissions by about 80% by 2050, keeping global warming below 2 º C - representing a dramatic ceiling for the environmental future of the world.
"If we continue to depend on fossil fuels, we face a future of increasing uncertainty about costs, security and climate change," said Jim Leape, director general of WWF. "We are offering an alternative scenario - much more promising and fully viable. "
"The report shows that the planet may indeed have economies alive and clean energy, cheap and renewable, the next forty years," said Denise Hamu, secretary general of WWF-Brazil.
Brazil ahead - The fact that Brazil produces electricity from hydropower gives certain competitive advantage to the country towards achieving the vision of respected consultancy Ecofys. "However, we can not accommodate us because we're fouling our energy and clearly have opportunities to diversify our sources, with more investment in energy efficiency and modern renewable energy such as wind, solar and solar-thermal ", said Carlos Rittl, program coordinator Energy and Climate Change at WWF-Brazil.
Rittl also highlights that the global demand for bioenergy will grow larger. As biofuels are an increasingly important part in the global energy matrix, it is up to Brazil to its expansion in this sector, following strict criteria for sustainability, with no pressure on natural ecosystems.
"Moreover, Brazil has to be very responsible about the use and extraction of oil investment in the pre-salt layer. The costs of modern renewable energy technologies are declining, while the oil are soaring. The world is increasingly aware of each ton of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere move and its impact on global warming, "said Carlos Rittl.
Future optimistic - Divided into two parts, the report contains detailed analysis and scenario presented by Ecofys, and an evaluation of the WWF. The document shows that by 2050 the needs of utilities, transportation, energy, industrial and domestic, could be supplied with only residual use of fossil fuels and located and nuclear power, drastically reducing the uncertainties when energy security, pollution and catastrophic climate change.
Energy efficiency in buildings, vehicles and industry would be a key ingredient, along with a generation of electrical power clean and renewable provided through smart grids (intelligent networks), to meet growing worldwide demand for electricity.
According to the vision drawn by Ecofys, 2050, the total energy demand will be 15% lower than in 2005, despite population growth, industry, transport needs, and energy is being provided to those who today do not benefit from it. The world no longer depend on coal or nuclear sources, while international cooperation and rules limit the environmental damage potential represented by the production of biofuels and hydropower.
"In this report, we deliberately did not fancy taking on targets on the benefits of technologies yet to come, said the director of Ecofys, Kees van der Leun. "This is a conservative estimate on renewable energy which we enjoy in 2050. The Ecofys believes that solutions to the global energy challenge are within reach of our hands. There are many systems that use energy more efficiently, which allows us to manage the existing energy sources more carefully. Moreover, we believe the opportunities to use a huge amount of sustainable energy that surrounds us, "he said.
Providing reliable, affordable and clean on the scale needed will require a global effort, similar to the world's response to the global financial crisis. But the benefits would be much larger in the long run, the economy performed at a lower cost in energy will balance the total new investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency by 2040. And more: the economics of financial resources in relation to the traditional Energy will be producing about four trillion euros by 2050.
Other benefits will come from prevention conflicts related to energy security, environmental disasters and the scarcity of resources due to reduced availability of fossil fuels and the environmental and political challenges.
Equally important is the fact that the scenario of the Report of Energy would sitting in a reduction of over 80% in carbon emissions by 2050, which would increase the degree of confidence that global warming would kept below 2 ° C by reducing the unacceptable risk of a global environmental catastrophe. "We will live differently, but live well," said Jim Leape. "We have to provide energy to all without endangering our planet, and this, our report shows that it is possible. "
Source: WWF Brazil - http://is.gd/56frUV
