2025 International Day of Clean Energy: a Health Economist, Dr Oluedo Eric has called on World Leaders to show more commitments on Transition to Clean Energy so as to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions that deplete the Ozone layers, leading to increased Global Warming and catastrophic weather conditions.

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2025 International Day of Clean Energy: a Health Economist, Dr Oluedo Eric has called on World Leaders to show more commitments on Transition to Clean Energy so as to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions that deplete the Ozone layers, leading to increased Global Warming and catastrophic weather conditions. Speaking on the 2025 Theme: “Clean Energy for People and Planet” he emphasised the pressing need to shift to sustainable, renewable, Green and Clean energy sources to address climate change and enhance environmental resilience. For populations without clean energy access, the lack of reliable power hinders education, healthcare, and economic opportunities, and many of these developing regions still rely heavily on polluting fossil fuels for their daily life, perpetuating poverty. If current trends continue, by 2030 around 1.8 billion people will still use unsafe, unhealthy and inefficient cooking systems, such as burning wood or dung.

The Paris Climate Agreement has a long-term temperature goal which is to keep the rise in global surface temperature to well below 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial levels. The treaty also states that preferably the limit of the increase should only be 1.5 °C (2.7 °F). These limits are defined as averages of the global temperature as measured over many years. This Agreement is a historic, worldwide effort to tackle the causes, and impacts, of climate change. The agreement was signed in Paris in 2016, and marked the first time that nearly 200 global leaders agreed that Climate change is real and that human-caused pollution is the main driver (examples automobile exhaust, pollution from dirty power plants, deadly wildfires etc). Collaboration is needed to fix it. Paris Agreement has slowed global warming and has also proven that collective climate action works. Unfortunately, shortly after his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States on 20th January 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order pulling the United States out of the biggest global climate partnership in history: the Paris Agreement. Happily, some advanced countries, such as the UK, aims for 100% renewable cities by 2050. Presently, around 43% of the UK’s electricity is generated by renewables. Despite many obstacles towards 100% renewable energy, there are promising advantages to using renewable technologies.

Renewables now outpace fossil electricity investment by 10 to 1, with more investment in solar than all other power sources combined. As a result, renewables are poised to overtake coal as the leading power source in 2025. This progress is truly global. But adopting clean energy is integral to the fight against climate change, as well. A large chunk of the greenhouse gases that blanket the Earth and trap the Sun’s heat are generated through energy production, by burning fossil fuels (oil, coal, and gas) to generate electricity and heat. The science is clear: to limit climate change, we need to end our reliance on fossil fuels and invest in alternative sources of energy that are clean, accessible, affordable, sustainable, and reliable. Renewable energy sources which are available in abundance all around us, provided by the sun, wind, water, waste, and heat from the Earth, are replenished by nature and emit little to no greenhouse gases or pollutants into the air. At the same time, improving energy efficiency is key. Using less energy for the same output, through more efficient technologies in the transport, building, lighting, and appliances sectors for instance, saves money, cuts down on carbon pollution, and helps ensure universal access to sustainable energy for all.
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