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World's leading economies signal an end to fossil fuel use.
9th June 2015
The leaders of the world's leading economies, the G7 heads of state, have agreed two major targets for ending the use of fossil fuels in order to limit runaway global climate change. A few days ago they announced the target of ending all fossil fuel use by the end of the century (2100), but yesterday went further and said all electricity should be generated without the use of fossil fuels by 2050. The message is that fossil fuels need to be left in the ground if the world's climate is not to be radically altered.
Andy Day
Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years at two schools in East Yorkshire as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the humanities specialism. He has written extensively about teaching and geography - with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld and Teaching Geography.