While the APNU+AFC’s Green State Development Strategy (GSDS) is an ambitious and laudable plan, its 2025 target to get close to 100% renewable energy is unrealistic, according to specialist in Latin American energy issues Lisa Viscidi.
“When you have a country that doesn’t have any renewables, I think it is good to have a target and promote renewables but in what—six years?—I don’t believe that that is even technically possible,” Viscidi, who is also Energy Program Director at the not-for-profit organisation ‘The Dialogue,’ told Stabroek News in an interview last Tuesday.
Working towards 100% renewable energy by 2025 was among several commitments made by President David Granger in 2016, when he joined other world leaders in inking the historic Paris Agreement in New York.
The Paris Agreement sets out a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
