Climate Change Update: UN Climate change panel concludes renewable energy will be key tackling global warming

The Canadian Press: UN Climate change panel concludes renewable energy will be key tackling global warming: "The four-day meeting of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which began Thursday in Abu Dhabi was largely bullish on replacing fossil fuels.
'It is likely that renewable energy will have a significantly larger role in the global energy system in the future than today,' said the report. 'The scenarios indicate that even without efforts to address climate change, renewable energy can be expected to expand.'
A spokesman for the IPCC refused to comment on the report, saying it was still subject to several days of negotiations.
The report found that renewable energy — including solar, hydro, wind, biomass, geothermal and ocean energy — represented only about 13 per cent of the primary energy supply in 2008. But its growth is picking up with almost half of new electricity generating capacity coming from renewables in 2008 and 2009.
That growth will continue through 2050 with 164 different scenarios predicting the use of renewables significantly increasing as the world shifts to a low-carbon economy.
The most ambitious projected it will represent 77 per cent of global energy sources in 2050."