6.3 (b) Switching to renewable energy sources
The use of renewable energy usually involves environmental impacts of some kind, but these are normally lower than those of fossil or nuclear sources.
Approaches (a) and (b) are essentially 'supply-side' measures – applied at the supply end of the long chain that leads from primary energy production to useful energy consumption.
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