{"id":3193,"date":"2023-05-18T16:19:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2023-05-18T16:19:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:19:34","slug":"g7-leaders-must-fulfill-their-promise-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/18\/g7-leaders-must-fulfill-their-promise-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"G7 leaders must follow through on their promise to stop funding fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span>When G7 leaders gather in Hiroshima this weekend, they face a choice: double down on their commitments and move toward a clean, sustainable and more secure energy future, or continue down a destructive path of fossil fuel dependence and climate chaos. <\/span><\/strong><span>Last month, climate ministers from a group of rich countries\u00a0<\/span><span>they declared<\/span><span> , that they are &quot;firm in their commitment ... to keep the 1.5\u00b0C global temperature rise within reach&quot;.\u00a0<\/span><span>If they want to stay true to their word, they must close the door to new gas investments, including dangerous liquefied natural gas (LNG), honor their commitment to end international fossil fuel financing, and resist Japan&#039;s push for fossil fuel-based technologies. .<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span>End investments in fossil fuels<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span>Stopping new natural gas projects is critical to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. <\/span><span>The latest reports from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show that maintaining a 50 % chance of limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C requires an immediate end to investment in new coal, oil and gas. production and infrastructure for dangerous liquefied fossil gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>(<\/span><em>Elizabeth Bast, Tasneem Essop and Kanna Mitsuta)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When G7 leaders meet in Hiroshima this weekend, they face a choice: redouble their commitments and move towards a clean, sustainable and safer energy future, or continue on a destructive path of fossil fuel dependency and climate chaos. Last month, climate ministers from the group of rich countries said they were \u201cfirm in their commitment\u2026 to maintain [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}