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SOLAR POWER
An opportunity for global leaders:
Promote solar power at the COP21
In December this year, close to ambitious, because to do this the this existential threat now. There
200 governments will arrive biggest emitters must reduce is no room to delay action any
in Paris, aiming to negotiate carbon emissions to at least 80 further. The effects of climate
a global treaty to tackle per cent below 1990 levels by change are already being felt
climate change. The objective 2050. by many; with longer and hotter
is to keep global temperatures heatwaves, rising sea levels,
from r ising by a maximum of 2°C Climate change is the urgent species extinctions and acidifying
in comparison to pre-industrial and defining issue of our time oceans all being recorded. As
temperature levels. This is highly and policy makers must address UN General Secretary Ban Ki –
Hanau Energies Concept’s 6.8MW solar park in Sallèles-Cabardes,
south-west France © Hanau Energies Concept.
www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu
SOLAR POWER
An opportunity for global leaders:
Promote solar power at the COP21
In December this year, close to ambitious, because to do this the this existential threat now. There
200 governments will arrive biggest emitters must reduce is no room to delay action any
in Paris, aiming to negotiate carbon emissions to at least 80 further. The effects of climate
a global treaty to tackle per cent below 1990 levels by change are already being felt
climate change. The objective 2050. by many; with longer and hotter
is to keep global temperatures heatwaves, rising sea levels,
from r ising by a maximum of 2°C Climate change is the urgent species extinctions and acidifying
in comparison to pre-industrial and defining issue of our time oceans all being recorded. As
temperature levels. This is highly and policy makers must address UN General Secretary Ban Ki –
Hanau Energies Concept’s 6.8MW solar park in Sallèles-Cabardes,
south-west France © Hanau Energies Concept.
www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu
