The Need to Align Climate Ambitions and Action

The Financial Times' Energy Source newsletter focuses on RFF's Global Energy Outlook 2021 report.

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Date

June 8, 2021

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Media Highlight

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The Financial Times

"There remains an enormous gulf between the lofty climate ambitions of countries around the world and existing policies on how to get there.

That is the key takeaway of a report released today by Washington think-tank Resources for the Future, which analyses a host of scenarios set out by different climate and energy bodies.

'There’s a very, very big distance between the trends that are in action now and where the system would need to go to achieve climate goals that the international community has agreed upon,' Richard Newell, RFF president and former Energy Information Administration head, told ES."

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