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Protecting publicly owned federal lands essential for reaching net-zero emissions April 28, 2021 11:11 AM CDT By Kaya Axelsson, Kate Cullen And Stephen Lezak
A petroleum industry storage tank and a drilling rig sit on leased land owned by the federal government, with the Front range of the Rocky Mountains rising up in the background, near Mead, Colo. | Brennan Linsley / AP
Editor’s Note:
The following article was originally written before the April 22 Earth Day summit of global leaders, at which new emissions targets were set, including a commitment from the Biden administration for a 50% reduction of the U.S. 2005 level by 2030. Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress are making climate policy central to governing after four years of the disastrous a
Help Save People s World
The economic crisis has hit People s World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing.
Protecting publicly owned federal lands essential for reaching net-zero emissions April 28, 2021 11:11 AM CDT By Kaya Axelsson, Kate Cullen And Stephen Lezak
A petroleum industry storage tank and a drilling rig sit on leased land owned by the federal government, with the Front range of the Rocky Mountains rising up in the background, near Mead, Colo. | Brennan Linsley / AP
Editor’s Note:
The following article was originally written before the April 22 Earth Day summit of global leaders, at which new emissions targets were set, including a commitment from the Biden administration for a 50% reduction of the U.S. 2005 level by 2030. Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress are making climate policy central to governing after four years of the disastrous a
Achieving net-zero climate targets will depend on public lands
Aligning ambition with action will require a new era of federal leadership.
Since the start of the Biden administration, federal climate policy
seems to be waking up from a four-year slumber. But things are not as
they were in 2017. The planet is hotter, 57 million acres of American
forests have burned, and the global carbon budget is tighter than ever.
But there’s good news. Even while the Trump administration sought to
dismantle national climate policies, a growing number of local, state
and private-sector actors found ways to lead at home.
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Africa s Electricity Unlikely To Go Green This Decade
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LONDON - New research today from the University of Oxford predicts that total electricity generation across the African continent will double by 2030, with fossil fuels continuing to dominate the energy mix posing potential risk to global climate change commitments.
The study, published in Nature Energy, uses a state-of-the art machine-learning technique to analyse the pipeline of more than 2,500 currently-planned power plants and their chances of being successfully commissioned. It shows the share of non-hydro renewables in African electricity generation is likely to remain below 10% in 2030, although this varies by region.
New research from the University of Oxford predicts that total electricity generation across the African continent will double by 2030, with fossil fuels continuing to dominate the energy mix, posing potential risk to global climate change commitments.
The study, published in Nature Energy, uses a state-of-the art machine-learning technique to analyse the pipeline of more than 2,500 currently-planned power plants and their chances of being successfully commissioned. It shows the share of non-hydro renewables in African electricity generation is likely to remain below 10% in 2030, although this varies by region.
Galina Alova, study lead author and researcher at the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment said: Africa’s electricity demand is set to increase significantly as the continent strives to industrialise and improve the wellbeing of its people, which offers an opportunity to power this economic development through renewables. There is a prominent narrative i