World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says

The world is on an “unstoppable” shift towards renewable energy but the phase down of fossil fuels is not happening quickly enough, a new report says.

The International Energy Agency, the global energy watchdog, predicted renewables would provide half of the world’s electricity by 2030.

But it warned that emissions were still too high to prevent temperatures rising above a key threshold of 1.5C.

And the report said investment in fossil fuels needed to be cut in half.

The Paris-based energy agency’s report, released on…