Sustainability boosts energy security – WEC
Boosting the sustainability of energy systems goes hand-in-hand with improving energy security and equity, according to a World Energy Council and Oliver Wyman report
The global energy system can be made more environmentally sustainable while simultaneously improving energy security, defined by the diversification of sources, and energy equity across nations’ populations, according to research launched yesterday. The 2020 World Energy Trilemma Index, created by the World Energy Council (WEC), a network of energy leaders and practitioners, in partnership with consultancy Oliver Wyman, was launched at the WEC’s World Energy Week virtual event. Improving the sustainability of energy systems is often seen as a cost to the host country, or trade-off with other factors. “The Trilemma Index actually tends to illustrate that the opposite is true,” says Martin You
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