The main aim of Text I is to present

Based on the information provided in the first paragraph, mark the statements below as true (T) or false (F).

( ) The current pandemic has hindered the development of renewable energy.

( ) Solar PV technology will be a financial nuisance to most markets.

( ) Energy economy is an issue that goes beyond national borders.

The statements are, respectively, 

The extract that states that the transformation discussed in the text has met some resistance is: 

The sentence “Covid-induced recession is putting major strains on parts of today’s energy system” (2nd paragraph) suggests that the recession has 

The underlined passage in “For all the advances being made by renewables and electric mobility, 2021 is seeing a large rebound in coal and oil use” implies that the use of coal and oil is

When the text informs that “Public spending on sustainable energy in economic recovery packages has only mobilised around one-third of the investment required to jolt the energy system onto a new set of rails” (2nd paragraph), one may infer that the investment has been

At the end, the author’s opinion of the current energy system is

“Even while” in “In 2020, even while economies bent under the weight of Covid-19 lockdowns” (opening sentence) indicates the text will show that two situations are

After two collapses, a third dam at ‘imminent risk of rupture’
  A dam holding back mining waste from a Brazilian miner is at risk of collapsing, a government audit says. The same company was responsible for two tailings dam collapses since 2015 that unleashed millions of gallons of toxic sludge and killed hundreds of people in Brazil’s southeastern state of Minas Gerais, which has been known worldwide as the Brumadinho Dam Collapse.   The retired Xingu dam at Alegria iron ore mine in Mariana — the same municipality where a tailings dam collapsed in November 2015 in what’s considered Brazil’s worst environmental disaster to date — is at “serious and imminent risk of rupture by liquefaction,” according to an audit report from a local state organ. The report says the Xingu dam “does not... Ver mais

After two collapses, a third dam at ‘imminent risk of rupture’
  A dam holding back mining waste from a Brazilian miner is at risk of collapsing, a government audit says. The same company was responsible for two tailings dam collapses since 2015 that unleashed millions of gallons of toxic sludge and killed hundreds of people in Brazil’s southeastern state of Minas Gerais, which has been known worldwide as the Brumadinho Dam Collapse.   The retired Xingu dam at Alegria iron ore mine in Mariana — the same municipality where a tailings dam collapsed in November 2015 in what’s considered Brazil’s worst environmental disaster to date — is at “serious and imminent risk of rupture by liquefaction,” according to an audit report from a local state organ. The report says the Xingu dam “does not... Ver mais