All low-carbon energy is needed in order to tackle climate change and meet the 2050 emission targets, World Nuclear Association Director General Agneta Rising told New Europe.

“All the low-carbon options need to work together, otherwise we will not be able to minimize the affects of climate change. I do believe we need to have renewables but I’m also 100-percent convinced – as many others are – that without nuclear we cannot do it,” Rising said in an interview on the sidelines of the Atomexpo XI conference and exhibition in the Black Sea city of Sochi.

She pointed out that all 89 scenarios considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the end of 2018 showed that there would be a growing demand for electricity to be met by low-carbon generation, including nuclear.

 

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