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    Understanding sector coupling

    Oct 14, 2019 4 minutes

    The American businessman and prolific inventor Thomas Edison encouraged innovation through his quote, “There’s a better way to do it – find it!”.

    The quote became particularly relevant to 196 countries at the end of 2015. The United Nations Climate Change Conference had come to an end with the negotiation of the ‘Paris Agreement’ – an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit a global temperature increase to below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the year 2100.

    The Paris Agreement initiated strategies in various countries to set targets and develop plans to achieve them.

    SECTOR COUPLING

    For many of the EU members of the UN, the targets established were nothing short of

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