The New Way to Fight Climate Change

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Early on, governments in California and Japan poured money into diverse technological options for solar power.
63% : By following this logic, India and many other countries are now also leaping forward and deploying solar power on a massive scale.
63% : Last year around the edges of COP26, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union agreed to provide South Africa a multi-billion dollar package of loans and grants so that it could quickly move coal out of its energy system.
58% : For example, the United States and the European Union have created a partnership to advance clean steel and other metals, making it clear to their leading firms that successful innovation in metals will be rewarded in multiple markets.
55% : To prevent another Great Depression, for example, they created new financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -- the precursor to the World Trade Organization.
54% : Deep cuts in emissions, for example, won't spread around the planet unless the world's four great geopolitical poles -- the United States, China, the European Union, and India -- all find a way to engage.
50% : The war in Ukraine has prompted some countries, such as Germany, to temporarily shift back, but the future of coal is clear.
50% : Eliminating coal, of course, could economically ravage some local communities.
49% : That's why the best programs -- the effort to cut coal in South Africa, for example, or the new green energy loans and grants from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development -- include not just funding for coal alternatives but also programs to help the communities hit hard by the shift.
48% : Over the last two years, multiple governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and private-sector advocates have been working together to help countries build new clean power plants and move away from coal.
46% : This shift in strategy is evident, for example, in how solar power has emerged from a fringe technology to one of the least expensive ways to generate electricity.
45% : Perhaps the most important target for aggressive regulation is coal.
45% : But perhaps the most important target for aggressive regulation is coal.
43% : The use of coal is in decline elsewhere in the world, as well.

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