{"id":4768,"date":"2019-08-21T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"the-real-obstacle-to-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/21\/the-real-obstacle-to-climate-action\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Obstacle To Climate Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/node\/877312\">Kemal dervi\u015f &amp; Sebasti\u00e1n Strauss<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate change is probably the biggest threat facing humanity today. According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world must cut its carbon dioxide emissions to net-zero by 2050 in order to prevent global warming of 1.5\u00b0C, or likely more, above pre-industrial levels in this century. The challenge calls for drastic immediate action because the infrastructure investments the world makes today will determine the carbon intensity of its growth path for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet despite widespread recognition of the size and urgency of the climate challenge, emissions continue to increase, the land is \u201cunder growing human pressure,\u201d and the Amazon has never been more threatened\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/opinions\/real-obstacle-climate-action\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kemal dervi\u015f &amp; Sebasti\u00e1n Strauss Climate change is probably the biggest threat facing humanity today. According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world must cut&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4769,"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-4768","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\/4768","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=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}