From the side of science, for example, already in its 2014 report on mitigation options, the IPCC set out its stall, insisting that electrification was the master key insofar as ‘the decarbonization of the electricity sector may be achieved at a much higher pace than in the rest of the energy system’.16 By the time of its follow-up 2022 report, the scientific consensus had evidently further hardened. ‘Stringent emissions
