Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Opportunities and Challenges of the Emerging Clean Energy Industry
Transitioning to a low-carbon economy presents both a significant opportunity and an enormous challenge. An opportunity in that the commercialization of low-carbon solutions, including clean energy technologies, can further catalyze an important emerging market and support the transformation of the global energy sector. Simultaneously, this transition presents an enormous challenge given the significant capital required to transform economies that have been reliant on an energy system that has been largely fossil-fuel based. This challenge is even greater when you consider the requirement to make investments today for benefits that will materialize well into the future.

A successful transition will require close coordination between policy, technology and capital, at the core of which is partnership between the public and private sector as well as opportunities to partner with countries around the world.

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