Photo by Jeremy Levine Design
As the world gathers in South Africa to debate what they're not going to bother doing about climate change, a trade war is brewing in the renewables industry.
Predictably, it is the US and China who are firing opening salvoes at each other. First shots came from the US, who don't like how cheap Chinese-made solar panels are.
The counter-strike came last week from China, who have decided to investigate whether the US government gives too much subsidy to it's renewables industry.
The world can't afford a trade war over renewable energy. We don't have time to spend years denying each other the raw materials that could make a difference. What the governments need to realise is that climate change is a GLOBAL crisis requiring a GLOBAL response.
We can't afford small-minded, small-thinking protectionism.
4 comments:
I'd be interested to know why you chose that photo?
Because it was cheap solar panels which sparked off the war of words.
Oh, they're solar panels, right!
It's just that it looks remarkably like the floor in the rather extensive lobby of Lutyens House, Finsbury Circus, where I worked for 14 years many moons ago. Prior to that Lutyens House was the Headquarters of British Petroleum and those plates were recycled from the hull of a scrapped BP Oil Tanker ...
Hehe, they do look rather similar. I can't see BP carpeting their HQ in solar panels though!
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