The world can halve greenhouse pollution and coal use and retire all nuclear and brown coal-fired power stations, by 2050, through energy efficiency and renewable energy.
This report provides a blueprint showing how to apply existing technologies to halve global CO2 emissions by 2050, while allowing for an increase in energy consumption. The report is divided into 10 regional reports, with a global summary. It demonstrates how a 'business as usual' scenario is not an option if we are to attain a secure and stable energy supply.
This report, by an independent expert panel, is a preliminary response to the Australian government's Uranium and Nuclear Energy Taskforce report of November 2006.
For millions of inhabitants of the planet the explosion of the fourth block of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on 26th of April 1986 divided their life into two parts: pre and post Chernobyl.
The US is adopting an increasingly aggressive nuclear doctrine that is in danger of inflaming the growing number of potential flash points throughout Asia and the Middle East.
