Leapfrogging: avoiding a lock in of traditional fossil fuel based development pathway. Graphs (right) show that future costs of renewable energy will be increasingly competitive. Bar chart (right) shows renewable energy has the economic potential to meet energy demand in 2010 and 2050. Figure (right) shows the increase in energy demand to 2030 and 2050, which requires global climate policy to leapfrog to low carbon energy development pathways.
Leapfrogging: avoiding a lock in of traditional fossil fuel based development pathway. Graphs (right) show that future costs of renewable energy will be increasingly competitive. Bar chart (right) shows renewable energy has the economic potential to meet energy demand in 2010 and 2050. Figure (right) shows the increase in energy demand to 2030 and 2050, which requires global climate policy to leapfrog to low carbon energy development pathways.