{"id":5821,"date":"2015-06-19T14:08:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2015-06-19T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:08:50","slug":"one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week-call-for-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=5821","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week &#8211; call for climate action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the pope and the IEA have called for climate action this week.\u00a0 Whilst both have been saying the same type of thing they have been saying it in very different ways.\u00a0 The pope&#8217;s encyclical is apparently more about the moral case for climate action.\u00a0 I have not read it yet but will be writing a blog post on it when I have done so.\u00a0 The IEA is suggesting a technocratic approach.\u00a0 The IEA wants to see four general outcomes these are;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>A peak in global emissions by 2020.<\/li>\n<li>A five-yearly revision of targets set out in Paris to see how things go and &#8220;raise ambition&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Lock in the vision&#8221; a long-term goal on emissions, this would effectively set a global carbon budget.<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring emissions and fossil fuel use in the energy sector.\u00a0 The IEA suggest some\u00a0 ways of climate action here such as reducing leakage of methane in oil and gas extraction (easy to stop apparently but few bother), to\u00a0 more difficult such as phasing out old coal powered power stations and a huge in increase in renewables and energy efficiency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the positive side the IEA see a huge reduction in the costs of solar PV and electric vehicles by 2040 with most of the cost reductions in both happening in the next 5 years (see IEA graphs below).\u00a0 They also note that emissions fell last year when the global economy grew &#8211; a first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/solar-and-electric-car-data-going-fwd-from-IEA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/solar-and-electric-car-data-going-fwd-from-IEA-300x147.png\" alt=\"solar and electric car data going fwd from IEA\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/solar-and-electric-car-data-going-fwd-from-IEA-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/solar-and-electric-car-data-going-fwd-from-IEA-1024x502.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/solar-and-electric-car-data-going-fwd-from-IEA.png 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the pope and the IEA have called for climate action this week.\u00a0 Whilst both have been saying the same type of thing they have been saying it in very different ways.\u00a0 The pope&#8217;s encyclical is apparently more about the &hellip; 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