
Accelerating the Energy Transition Episode Episode 8 | Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Energy and Climate Innovation Editor at The Economist
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Is the U.N. Process Making Progress?
The u. N projects that wi'll see temperature rise something like two point seven degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. We're having a hard time getting countries to agree to a phase out or phase down of coal, he says. And so we need to find a solution to get off of coal, onto perhaps natural gas is abridging fuel,. if we can control the fugitive emissions problem of methane. Ultimately, purely carbon free or very low carbon forms of energy, be that renewables or possibly nuclear, although that too is a political problem, but is not an engineering problem, in my view.
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