Are There Potential Downsides of Going to 100 Percent Renewable Energy?
Climate change has widely reported negative consequences, including exacerbating severe weather patterns, harming wildlife, and potentially worsening human conflict and migration.
In an attempt to minimize these planetary changes, the Paris Agreement set the ambitious goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Innovations in renewable energy technologies like wind and solar power, along with electric vehicles (EVs), will be essential to hitting these goals. But according to experts, the long-awaited move to a fossil fuel-free economy will not come without its own set of issues.
