{"id":10010,"date":"2020-06-16T08:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T05:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10010"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","slug":"we-need-a-total-fossil-fuel-lockdown-for-a-climate-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/16\/we-need-a-total-fossil-fuel-lockdown-for-a-climate-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need a Total Fossil Fuel Lockdown for a Climate Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paris\/Nairobi, 16 June 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Growth in renewable power has been impressive over the past five years. But too little is happening in heating, cooling and transport. Overall, global hunger for energy keeps increasing and eats up progress, according to REN21\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/y3i6c3u4.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gsr_2020_full_report_en.pdf\"><em>Renewables 2020 Global Status Report<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(GSR), released today. The journey towards climate disaster continues, unless we make an immediate switch to efficient and renewable energy in all sectors in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYear after year, we report success after success in the renewable power sector. Indeed, renewable power has made fantastic progress. It beats all other fuels in growth and competitiveness. Many national and global organisations already cry victory. But our report sends a clear warning: The progress in the power sector is only a small part of the picture. And it is eaten up as the world\u2019s energy hunger continues to increase. If we do not change the entire energy system, we are deluding ourselves,\u201d says Rana Adib, REN21\u2019s Executive Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report shows that in the heating, cooling and transport sectors, the barriers are still nearly the same as 10 years ago. \u201cWe must also stop heating our homes and driving our cars with fossil fuels,\u201d Adib claims. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/we-need-total-fossil-fuel-lockdown-climate-revolution\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris\/Nairobi, 16 June 2020&nbsp;&#8211; Growth in renewable power has been impressive over the past five years. But too little is happening in heating, cooling and transport. Overall, global hunger for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}