"In the face of frequent extreme weather, we need to strengthen our determination to develop renewable energy!"

                                                                 Text | Qin Haiyan is the Wind Energy Committee of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society

From March 14 to 16, a sandstorm swept through China, sounding the alarm of ecological and environmental problems. The intensity of the sand and dust weather was the strongest in the past 10 years, affecting 40% of the country's land area. In the first quarter of this year, there were six sandstorms, the most in the same period in the past 10 years. This reminds us once again that sandstorms are only late, not absent. Globally, extreme weather has also intensified in recent years. From 2019 to 2020, forest fires and wildfires raged in many places in Australia and the United States for several months, displacing tens of thousands of people and killing hundreds of millions of animals, and the resulting dense fog spread to South America and Europe. The Arctic Circle has experienced an unprecedented high temperature of 38°C and a record low sea ice cover, posing a huge threat to the survival of local flora and fauna and the global climate. China, Japan, India and other places have been hit by floods one after another, and more than 70 million people have been affected in China alone, with direct economic losses of more than 200 billion yuan...... At the same time, problems such as air pollution and garbage sieges are also intensifying, so much so that UN Secretary-General António Guterres has had to warn that climate damage is on the verge of reaching irreversible levels.