UN Climate Chief: "There is no credible emission strategy without nuclear power."

[NNadir]

It's sort of late in the game to be forced to state the obvious, but for what it's worth:

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said on 21 June that he had never seen a credible scenario for reducing emissions that did not include nuclear energy. He was speaking at the launch of the World Energy Council's (WEC's) Energy and Climate Change study...

...Gerald Doucet, general secretary of WEC, said that the "keep all options open" debate had moved on from 'renewables versus fossil' or 'renewables versus nuclear'. The WEC study concludes that all clean energy options will need to be used. In Doucet's view, the main 'nuclear renaissance' would begin to have a significant impact on global greenhouse gas emissions around 2030. In the meantime, the nuclear industry should look to lifetime extensions to help maintain the nuclear contribution to electricity provision...

http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=10034

As for M. Doucet's claim about the end of debate, it depends on what you mean by "debate."

If you listen to some definitions, there is a "debate" about the reality of things like, say, evolution.

Similarly there is a "debate" about the absolute essential role that nuclear must play in any serious approach to climate change.

It must be said that even the most serious approaches to climate change are at best, long shots. The question is no longer one of avoiding huge losses from climate change but has switched to mitigating the severity. Every day spent in "debate" lessens the ability to mitigate.