Der Aufstieg der Solarenergie und Chinas rasantes Wachstum bei Elektrofahrzeugen haben möglicherweise zu einem Rückgang der globalen Emissionen geführt. Der Höhepunkt ist jedoch nur der Anfang der Reise – die Geschwindigkeit, mit der wir die Emissionen reduzieren, ist wirklich entscheidend.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-21/major-climate-agencies-call-global-emissions-peak/104016030
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“Bloomberg NEF’s head of Australian research, Leonard Quong says people often struggle to understand the magnitude of the current transition.
The simplest way we can put it is that global energy systems are facing the biggest, most rapid change since the Industrial Revolution and it’s happening right now, Quong said.
[Researchers] say it is possible we will see global emissions fall in 2024 and 2023 will have been the peak of global emissions. We will know if these predictions have come true at the end of the year.
Although it’s hard to say exactly when emissions have peaked, the data so far in 2024 seems that that was the right call, Quong said.
You might notice the dip in the chart below in global emissions in 2020 from the COVID-19 pandemic. That doesn’t count, according to Neil Grant, a senior climate and energy analyst at Climate Analytics.
With the COVID pandemic, emissions fell for one year but that wasn’t due to this sort of structural underlying shifts in the energy system, Grant explained.
To really define a peak, we need to see emissions fall and continue to fall, driven by long-term structural change such as the rollout of renewables and the decline of fossil fuels.”
Earlier this week, I heard that during the first half of this year Pakistan acquired 13GW capacity in solar panels. The entire capacity of their electric grid is just short of 50GW. That’s insane levels of development.
Any country could do this if they could get out from under the influence of the oil lobby.
Daily reminder the only reason that climate change is even at battle to be fought and not something that was discovered and promptly dealt with is the influence of the fossil fuels lobby. They discovered it was happening in the 1970s and immediately went to work denying it and sabotaging political efforts to reduce fossil fuel use.
Sounds like it should be a conspiracy theory but it’s all on the record.
The big lie that if you abandon fossil fuels your economy immediately dies never had any real supporting evidence, and now we’re starting to see just how good renewables used en masse can be.
Wild to think how much we have to fight to switch to freely available, non polluting power sources.