US return to Paris pact will boost geothermal quest

The US is a central global actor. [Courtesy]

America’s move to rejoin the Paris Agreements on Climate Change is a major psychological boost to renewables such as geothermal. The US is a central global actor, a pace-setter whose philosophical dispositions determine the pulse and trajectory of many aspects around the world. The nature and utilisation of energy is one of them. Science affirms that our world is warming and on the precipice. A red alert - apocalyptic even - of heatwaves, floods, drought, and rising sea levels - has been issued. It is an existential threat to humankind.

Reduction of Green House Gas emissions (GHG) to 2°C of pre-industrial levels was fronted to tame the climate chaos. At the heart of it is to replace fossils with renewables. That is how geothermal energy is plugged in.