The observation is clear: time is running out in terms of green innovation.
Half of the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to reach zero by 2050 "
should come from technologies that are not yet on the market,
" repeats Fatih Birol, executive director of the Agency. Energy International (IEA).
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However, innovation in low-carbon energy technologies is slowing down, reveals a report produced by the IEA and the European Patent Office (EPO).
Of course, it is still growing, which is no longer the case, since 2015, for innovation in fossil fuels.
However, since 2017, the number of patents filed in technologies related to clean energy has not exceeded 3.3% on average per year, or four times less than between 2000 and 2013.
Europe at the forefront
In twenty years, more than 420,000 patent families, i.e. patents linked to a single invention, have been filed in low-carbon technologies, which include inventions
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