{"id":301507,"date":"2019-11-19T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T04:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301507"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T05:32:55","slug":"climate-change-investors-wants-world-energy-body-to-support-paris-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/climate-change-investors-wants-world-energy-body-to-support-paris-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change: Investors wants world energy body to support Paris accord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), faced renewed pressure on Monday to overhaul the organisation&#8217;s influential projections for fossil fuel demand from investors and scientists concerned about climate change. <\/p>\n<p>Pension funds, insurers and large companies were among 65 signatories of a joint letter to Birol, seen by Reuters, urging him to do more to support the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement to avert catastrophic global warming. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The year 2020 marks a turning point for the world &#8211; the year when we either grasp the challenges and opportunities before us, or continue delaying and obstructing the low-carbon transformation,&#8221; the letter said. <\/p>\n<p>The letter represented the first coordinated response by investors, scientists and campaigners pushing Birol to rethink the Paris-based organisation&#8217;s flagship annual outlook since the latest edition was launched on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), faced renewed pressure on Monday to overhaul the organisation&#8217;s influential projections for fossil fuel demand from investors and scientists concerned about climate change. Pension funds, insurers and large companies were among 65 signatories of a joint letter to Birol, seen by Reuters, urging him to do more to support the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement to avert catastrophic global warming. &#8220;The year 2020 marks a turning point for the world &#8211; the year when we either grasp the challenges and opportunities before us, or continue delaying and obstructing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}