What makes FP046, the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Sumber Solar Plant project in Mongolia with Xacbank, extraordinary? When Sumber Solar Plant went online, it marked two firsts: the first completion of a solar plant funded by GCF, and the first solar power plant financed by a local Mongolian bank.
The climate challenge is, at its core, an energy challenge. Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of the modern world, and virtually everything we do, make, buy, drive, wear, and consume is touched by or dependent on the infrastructure use to harvest, distribute and burn coal, natural gas, or oil. Creating a new infrastructure to undergird the 21st century and beyond is a gargantuan undertaking, the scale of which is easy to underestimate.
Halving global warming with solar geoengineering could ‘offset tropical storm risk’ Engineering the climate to reflect away sunlight could halve global warming and offset the risk of increases in tropical storms, new research suggests.
Carbon Brief spoke with Dr Pete Irvine, who led the study, about his findings here.
