Leading executives from the solar and wind industries went on the offensive this week at a climate conference in Paris, telling coal executives that renewable energy is the future, and that they had better get used to it. Responding to comments from Tony Hayward - chairman of mining company Glencore - that "solar is not the answer to broad scale industrialization", SkyPower chief executive Kerry Adler retorted: "Solar is the new world. You've got to get used to it." The power executives were attending a Paris business summit on climate change, six months prior to November's highly anticipated UN conference on global climate change, which is set to be represented by 200 countries. Glencore's Hayward told the audience that it is simply not possible to remove coal from the energy mix, particularly in growing countries such ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...