Island nation to make entire energy supply carbon-free.






Carbon-free nation

A tiny nation you may well have never heard of fears it may become an early casualty of climate change - and will almost be the first to make its entire energy supply carbon-free.

"By September next year, we will become the first nation using 100%-renewable energy, and number one in percentage greenhouse gas reduction in the Pacific and elsewhere," Foua Toloa told a meeting on the fringes of the UN climate conference.

Tokelau's entire population would fit inside four jumbo jets, and its per-capita income is around $1,000 per year.

So its greenhouse gas output is an infinitesimal fraction of the global total.

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