International policies for climate change mitigation and tracking increase of renewable technologies for electricity power generation

The world’s power supply is feeding the most essential portions of our lives. Without it, high living standards that we have taken for granted for so long, will fall dramatically. However, these living standards and everything comes with consequences such that fossil fuels that we mostly used in power generation is causing huge amounts of carbon dioxide emissions which is the most potent greenhouse gas thus damaging our climate. Remarkably, it is crucial to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to maintain the stability of earth and climate. Human effects on the climate change are clear due to the extraordinary greenhouse gas emissions, and in order to observe the changes, it is not necessary to be a scientist. To prevent the instability of the perfect equilibrium that we live in, immediate ambitious climate change actions must be taken in order to make energy revolution into a reality. Key step is to find further ambitious legally binding targets under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to provide a clear signal to the countries that all of them committed to decarbonize their energy sectors and also convince energy sector investors to invest towards low carbon technologies. In Paris for the 21st UN Conference of Parties on December 2015, will be held to negotiate and sign a new global agreement to address dangerous global warming, and the success of the conference articulates upon countries agreeing to support the vision for 100% renewable energy by 2050. Based on the recent electricity trends and prospective market growth, the future of renewable energy is fundamentally a choice, not an inevitable conclusion. In this scope, deployment of higher share of renewable technologies could be a solution to many concerning aspects such as stabilizing the climate change caused by fossil fuel usage, meeting energy demand of a growing population, bringing electricity to 1.6 million people with access in 21st century, ensuring stable and secure energy access for all nations, and transporting electricity over long distances from where it is generated to final use. However, as always the solution is not as simple as it sounds, since due to the nature of the primary energy used to generate power from renewable technologies is not always there and stable, thus it attributes some challenges to the existing power network.