89 views ENP Newswire Last month, world leaders met to stress the need for urgent actions to address climate change. The Leaders Summit on Climate Change-and the commitments discussed-occurred against a daunting backdrop: economies around the world have less than thirty years to cut overall carbon emissions to net zero. Next month, the G7 will take up this challenge, as will international partners in Milan before COP26. These meetings offer a critical chance to set a bold new direction in our fight against climate change. Our success in this fight will require energy-low-carbon energy to transform our systems and carbon-intensive sectors of our economies. As Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, has observed, 'energy is a good thing-the problem is emissions.' Nations across the world will have to produce much more low-carbon energy than we do today to drive sustainable development. In this endeavour they should be guided by a realistic, science-based approach. To quote Dr Birol again, 'we do not have the luxury to exclude any clean energy technologies if we are serious about climate change.' Nuclear energy must be part of that clean energy mix, and we must show the same ambition for nuclear as for other clean technologies in the pursuit of net zero.