Can Hydropower Survive Climate Change?

Hydropower is the largest source of clean energy in the world, generating more electricity than all other renewable energy resources combined. However, the global rate of hydropower expansion is falling, and the technology faces an existential threat in many parts of the world due to changing weather patterns associated with climate change. This could spell major trouble for global decarbonization efforts as net-zero scenarios rely on a strong continued role for hydropower with an ideal annual growth rate of around 4%.  “In the last…