Global climate changeSustainable Energy Resources

To meet increasing global demand for energy, while reducing the risk of either causing damage to the environment or contributing to global warming, it is important that:

• Developing countries reduce deforestation and plant trees
• Countries find new sources of energy that are more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels
• Everyone uses energy more efficiently to prevent waste
• Developed countries switch from fossil fuels to alternative sources – solar, wind, tidal and hydroelectric power

The purpose of sustainability is to manage resources so future generations can use the resources too. International concern has led many countries to try to reduce their use of fossil fuels.

At World summits governments get together and discuss global strategies. In 2015, 196 of the world's nations signed the Paris Agreement, which bound them to try to keep the global temperature at no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.