https://www.scmp.com/rss/514766/feed Daniel Yergin, vice-chairman of S&P Global, is the author of The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The “energy transition” from hydrocarbons to renewables and electrification is at the forefront of policy debates nowadays. But the past 18 months have shown this undertaking to be more challenging and complex than one would think just from studying the graphs that appear in many scenarios. Even in the United States and Europe, which have adopted massive initiatives (such as the Inflation Reduction Act and RePowerEU) to move things along, the development, deployment and scaling up of the new... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3207834/climate-change-why-shift-clean-energy-will-be-more-painful-you-think?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3207834/climate-change-why-shift-clean-energy-will-be-more-painful-you-think?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:30:10 +0000