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Universal access to clean and affordable energy requires a transformation of both the production and use of energy<ref name=":11" />. To reduce coal use by 70 percent by 2030 means a five-fold increase in wind and solar energy, as well as phasing out and closing 2,400 coal-fired power stations globally within the next decade<ref name=":9" />. Facilitating the transition to replace fossil-fuel energy with renewable energy will be expensive, but it is much cheaper to mitigate climate change than to adapt to climate change<ref>Burke et al, [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0071-9/ Large potential reduction in economic damages under UN mitigation targets]</ref>.