Cuba could beat US energy blockade with $8bn investment in renewables, says thinktank

Report by Common Wealth argues rest of the world should pay for country’s transition as reparative climate finance

Cuba could beat the US’s crippling energy blockade for ever with just an $8bn investment in renewable energy.

And the rest of the world should pay for it.

Those are the bold claims of a thinktank analysis of the embattled socialist republic’s energy policy, which claims that Cuba could show its Caribbean neighbours the way to a green energy future.