What Is Clean Energy? And Is It Really Clean?

The average temperature of the world is rising rapidly due to the actions of humans over the past 200 years. As temperature rises and climate change becomes an increasingly unavoidable threat, the world is making commitments to try and keep temperature increase to 1.5°C by the turn of the century.In order to achieve such a goal, nations have committed to reducing carbon emissions and in some cases, reaching net zero emissions by the middle of the century in order to keep climate change in control. One of the biggest objectives in reaching net zero emissions is to adopt measures of clean energy.What is clean energy?Clean energy is an umbrella term for energy sources that don’t produce large amounts of carbon emissions during their generation. While clean energy sources are also often renewable energy sources, the two are not quite the same. Renewable energy refers to sources of…

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