The Energy Report that was published today by Ecofys, WWF and AMO is a comprehensive study claiming that the world can be 100% reliant on renewable energy by 2050. It demonstrates the feasibility of such ambitions across the whole planet.
A fully sustainable and renewable global energy system is possible by 2050. The report proposes to address the urgent problems caused by looming climate change. The world’s energy needs could be met entirely by renewable sources.
For several reasons, the world will need an adapted energy system to accommodate its growing population. Climate change, depletion of natural resources and a growing dependence on only a few energy suppliers are a threat to our current system. Renewable sources such as solar energy, wind, hydro and bio-energy are necessary for a sustainable balance.
Ecofys, with over 25 years of experience in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency, investigated technical, social and economical developments in all energy carriers, all regions and all sectors of the global energy system.
Renewable energy proves to be abundant. By utilizing existing technologies alone and applying stringent sustainability criteria 95% of all energy can be renewable by 2050. Only certain manufacturing processes (e.g. steel, cement) will need specific properties of fossil fuels that cannot be substituted by renewable fuels yet.
