{"id":5849,"date":"2023-07-18T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2023-07-18T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T09:25:24","slug":"europe-should-limit-luxury-energy-consumption-to-meet-emissions-targets-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/07\/18\/europe-should-limit-luxury-energy-consumption-to-meet-emissions-targets-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe should cut &#039;luxury&#039; energy consumption to meet emissions targets, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers found that slightly reducing demand for the &quot;luxury&quot; 20 % of Europe&#039;s most energy-intensive consumers would save seven times the amount of planet-warming gases that would be emitted by meeting the basic needs of the 20 % consumers who use the least energy. A study that modeled the effect of narrowing the gap in energy use between households in 27 European countries found that curbing demand from the top fifth, even at a relatively high level, reduced greenhouse gas pollution from energy use by 9.7 % while increasing demand. from people in the bottom fifth, who also live in poverty, to a relatively low level, it increases emissions by only 1.4 %. (<em>Ajit Niranjan, the Guardian)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found that slightly reducing the demand for \u201cluxury\u201d by the 20 % European consumers who use the most energy would save seven times the amount of greenhouse gases that would be emitted by meeting the basic needs of the 20 % consumers who use the least energy. The study, which modelled the effect of reducing the gap in energy consumption between households in 27 European countries, found that [\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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849","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=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}