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World Wind Technology Issue 2 2022
Editorial Editor Nicholas Kenny
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e are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing. Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing, global temperatures keep rising, and our planet is fast
approaching tipping points that will make climate change irreversible,” said the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on 7 November 2022 during the Cop27 summit. “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.” The former Portuguese prime minister’s warnings were stark as he addressed attendees at the event in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The overall tone of the summit was grim, lacking the optimism of Glasgow only a year earlier, and somewhat marred by the presence of over 600 fossil fuel lobbyists. “It is the defining issue of our age. It is the central challenge of our century. It is unacceptable, outrageous and self-defeating to put it on the back burner,” Guterres continued. “The science is clear: any hope of limiting temperature rise to 1.5ºC means achieving global net-zero emissions by 2050. But that 1.5ºC goal is on life support – and the machines are rattling.”
If there is any hope of reaching that 1.5ºC target, it falls on the wind industry to shoulder much of the burden in terms of the renewable energy capacity that will be required. However, there are many challenges between where we are today and were we need to be. In this issue, we explore some of the obstacles facing the wind industry. On page 10, we dig into the challenges and opportunities facing the UK’s wind energy sector as governments swap in and out, each with their own differing wind policies. Then, on page 29, we look at how Russia has used cyberattacks to target energy infrastructure across central and eastern Europe since the launch of its invasion of Ukraine. On a more positive note, on page 32, we examine how the pairing of offshore wind and renewable hydrogen could reduce the West’s reliance on Russian coal and gas. We’re living in a time of global conflict and instability. And, with so much hanging in the balance, we can’t stay on life support forever.
Nicholas Kenny, editor
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