Environmental and policy challenges
Most global leaders have accepted that climate change is real and mainly caused by burning fossil fuels and set policies:
Despite these actions, the Renewables 2021 Global Status report confirmed that in a decade we have seen almost no change (80.3% to 80.2%) in the percentage of fossil fuels in the energy mix.
Europe is taking a leadership role to reduce its carbon levels investing a third of the 1.8 trillion euro investments over the next seven years to support targets to ensure:
If these investments fail to hold temperatures rise to 3 degrees centigrade, climate change effects in Europe will by the end of the century result in (European Environment Agency, 2022):
60,000 additional fatalities per year from heat waves
€24 billion additional losses per year from floods
€20 billion additional losses per year from droughts
€100 billion additional losses from coastal flooding
AURORA is demonstrating how people can make a difference by the choices they make reducing 13-20% of all green-house gas emissions linked to residential energy use and the 13% linked to transport choices, as well as empowering people to take ownership of new community solar energy projects.
