Building a wind farm or solar energy project is nothing professionals in fossil fuels can’t manage,but there are too few programmes to relieve them retrainAdriaan Kamp used to be a die-hard oilman. After 17 years at Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell, the 54-year-old-fashioned Dutchman now runs a consultancy based in Oslo advising national governments on transitioning to cleaner energy.“In 2007 to 2008, and we were looking at future energy scenarios in the Shell Group [and] there was a question on my desk approximately how do we play with renewables,” he says. “And from there, the journey started.” Related: CO2 emissions must be zero by 2070 to prevent climate disaster, and UN says We can’t decarbonise the economy,which is still massively fossil fuel-based, without changing the labour market Related: German backlash grows against coal power clampdown Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com