New research from UCL & the International Institute for Sustainable Development suggests that there are now enough sustainable/green energy projects running or in development that no new fossil fuel capacity is required.
As current fossil fuel capacity now degrades/reduces, so green energy capacity can take its place.
This is not how the fossil fuel firms see it, but as emissions keep rising (up 1.1% last year) this must become a crucial pivot point!
@ChrisMayLA6 it's the only way I can see a rapid end to fossil fuels. Because governments and businesses aren't going to willingly give the fuels up while the extraction and consumption offers value.
Looks like global CO2 emissions finally peaked. Good. But no time to lose: onwards to a rapid descent!
From BloombergNEF via Justin Guay. #co2#emissions#ClimateChange
@laurimyllyvirta Strange feeling, after 38 years working on energy transition and climate action. The moment of global CO2-emissions peaking is definitely a milestone. But we've lost so much time, and climate is already getting worse so rapidly, that there's little time to celebrate. Go, go, go!
IEA analysis finds sales of #SUVs hit a new record in 2023, making up half of all new cars sold globally. Experts warn that the rising sales of the large, heavy ICE vehicles is pushing up carbon #emissionshttps://buff.ly/3Km7vhp
Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
The richest 0.1% in Britain emit 22 times more from transport than low earners & 12 times more than average. Income is directly linked to levels of mobility.
In the UK, transport is now the largest source of emissions.
"The #cement industry alone accounts for nearly eight percent of human-caused CO2 #emissions.
The Cambridge researchers approached the problem by looking at an industry that was already well established—steel recycling, which uses electric-powered furnaces to produce the alloy.
Instead of waste being produced, the end result was recycled cement ready for use in #concrete, bypassing the emissions-heavy process of superheating limestone in kilns."
" An electric arc furnace needs a "flux" material, usually lime, to purify the steel. At the end of the process, the used flux is discarded as a waste material. So for the Cambridge method, the lime flux was swapped out for the recycled #cement paste. And sure enough, not only was it able to purify the steel just fine, but if the leftover slag is cooled quickly in air, it becomes new Portland cement. "