{"id":5463,"date":"2019-09-19T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"scientists-set-out-how-to-halve-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/19\/scientists-set-out-how-to-halve-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Set Out How To Halve Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By The Guardian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greenhouse gas emissions could be halved in the next\ndecade if a small number of current technologies and behavioral trends are\nramped up and adopted more widely,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmuniversity.box.com\/s\/y1yht2f6tty61ng6oxhhj1cu8t9jadd9\">researchers have found<\/a>,\nsaying strong civil society movements are needed to drive such change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solar and wind power, now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/mar\/25\/coal-more-expensive-wind-solar-us-energy-study\">cheaper than fossil fuels<\/a>&nbsp;in many regions, must be scaled up rapidly to\nreplace coal-fired generation, and this alone could halve emissions from\nelectricity generation by 2030, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/exponentialroadmap.org\/\">Exponential\nRoadmap report<\/a>&nbsp;from an international\ngroup of experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the rapid uptake of electric vehicles in some parts of\nthe world could be sustained, the vehicles could make up 90% of the market by\n2030, vastly reducing emissions from transport, it said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/sep\/19\/power-halve-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2030-climate-scientists\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Guardian Greenhouse gas emissions could be halved in the next decade if a small number of current technologies and behavioral trends are ramped up and adopted more widely,&nbsp;researchers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5464,"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-5463","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\/5463","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=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}