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Article

27 Sep 2013

Author:
WWF, ITUC, Friends of the Earth, Oxfam, ActionAid, Christian Aid, Greenpeace

IPCC Confirms Energy Transformation Must Start Now

After 25 years of IPCC reports, the inconvenient truth is confirmed: climate change is real; it’s happening at an alarming rate, and human-activities, mainly the burning of fossil fuels, are causing it. We, six of the world’s largest environmental and development non-government organisations, with the international trade union confederation, make a unified call to governments to act on the findings and introduce strong climate pollution controls...We already know that the energy sector is the main culprit – but also the main solution – for global climate change. We already know that a large source of climate-changing pollution comes from burning fossil fuels...At the same time, renewable energy provides a straightforward, proven and increasingly affordable solution...