The IPCC has a vision of what that looks like over the next few years and significant parts of that are written into the Inflation Reduction Act and recent US regulatory decisions.
How about accountability for the lobbyists, CEOs and investors that made the push to keep delaying this in the first place, I wanna see prison time people!
Be really nice, but we’re far from having the power to do it, and the ex post facto rule in the US constitution makes it hard to criminalize past actions.
Shhhh let me live my fantasies🥲
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mr. Kerry said that “largely” ending the burning of coal, gas and oil was required to limit average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, which many scientists say is necessary to prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
But he also said that to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, nations would need to deploy technology to capture and store carbon emissions from industries for which there are no low-carbon or zero-carbon alternatives, like steel and cement manufacturing.
But Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing states oppose any efforts to reduce fossil fuels gradually, much less to end the use of the oil and gas that underpins their economies.
Under U.N. rules, any agreement from the climate talks requires unanimous approval; any single nation can object and scuttle the deal.
Given the heavy investment in wind, solar and other renewable energy by the United States and other countries, as well as the private sector, Mr. Kerry said it was inevitable that the global economy would move away from fossil fuels.
“We think it’s good news, a positive sign that the U.S. government is engaging ambitiously on the goal of decarbonization,” said David Nicholson, the chief climate officer of Mercy Corps, a global aid group.
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“Largely”?
Can piss off the donors too much.
I think that’s meant to allow some residual use coupled with CCS and/or DAC.
In any case, the time frame for zero is further out than the term of currently-elected officials, so I’ll be happy to see cuts happening.
That’s an interesting claim considering that US oil production has rapidly increased in the last 10ish years. Like, I hope he’s not full of shit, but the numbers I can find suggest were actually producing the most oil we’ve ever produced right now.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrfpus2&f=m
Like it’s nice that he’s saying that and all, but I hope my skepticism can be forgiven until the US government, like, actually does something to reduce oil production. I hope he’s right, but right now congress can’t even pass a fucking budget, much less create sweeping, radical anti-oil-production legislature.
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