20th September 2023
‘A just transition to a fossil free future.’
Fossil free’
If the main driver of the excess of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere is from the burning of fossil fuels, then logically if we are to survive we must stop using fossil fuels. But after centuries in which we have become more and more reliant on fossil fuels – first coal, then oil and gas – can we do this without a substantial diminution of our living standards and can we do it in a way that is just?
Article produced by the United Nations “‘Without renewables, there can be no future’: 5 ways to power the energy transition” – https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1140357
Here is another article from May Boeve, the executive director of 350.org https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/just-transition-community-renewable-energy
And from the World Resources Institute – https://www.wri.org/insights/just-transition-zero-carbon-world-possible-heres-how
The Green Tau 