The energy of the sun and wind smoothly displaces coal

Progress cannot be stopped on the spot, and electricity generation from light and wind is slowly but surely replacing coal-fired power generation. So according to the latest report of the analytics center EMBER the share of solar and wind energy has almost doubled from 2015 to 2020.

At the moment, green energy occupies a tenth of the entire world energy and is already very close to nuclear energy.

Leaders in green energy production

Germany is the undisputed leader in generating electricity from solar panels and wind turbines.

This is how 42 percent of "green electricity" is generated and consumed on German soil, in Great Britain this percentage is slightly lower and equal to 33%, and in the European Union the percentage of "green" electricity is steadily growing and is already equal to 21%.

In Russia, this indicator remains at very modest levels and is equal to 3.3%. Certainly not enough, but this is not its complete absence.

Who is the main air pollutant in the world

The main carbon pollutants in the world are: China, USA and India. So only in China, coal-fired power plants are concentrated, which carry out up to 50% of carbon emissions from the entire world volume.

In the United States, the situation is different and is changing rapidly. Already in 2020, the share of coal-fired power generation will equal that of green energy and will equal 12% of the total. In India, green energy accounts for 10% of the total generation.

Why you need to reduce carbon emissions

Probably, there are no people left who do not notice that the weather around the world is changing rapidly. Droughts, floods, fires, etc. are increasing. Climatologists attribute this to the fact that the atmosphere is gradually warming up, and this leads to global climate change, and the warming up is due to intense emissions of carbon into the atmosphere.

So, in order to minimize the harmful effects, back in 2015, the Paris climate agreement was concluded, according to which it is necessary to prevent the heating of the planet by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.

To do this, it is necessary to reduce the consumption of coal over 10 years by 13% annually. And by 2050, emissions should almost completely disappear.

But scientists are not so optimistic, because even in this difficult year for the entire industry, when practically all production was stopped, the reduction of coal production and combustion decreased by only 8%.