{"id":407842,"date":"2021-03-30T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=407842"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T05:50:12","slug":"rational-expectations-vital-to-understand-costs-of-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rational-expectations-vital-to-understand-costs-of-net-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Rational Expectations: Vital to understand costs of \u2018net-zero\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given India has already achieved more than 60% of its 2030 commitment at Paris of cutting energy-intensity by 33-35%, most expect it to announce a net-zero date of 2050, or a decade ahead of China\u2019s commitment. Indeed, India is just two percentage points short of its 2030 target\u2014also at Paris\u2014of having 40% of electricity generation capacity via non-fossil-fuels.<\/p>\n<p>But, as a study by Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW, bit.ly\/3w0K8Sc) makes clear, Paris and net-zero are entirely different. India\u2019s Paris commitment was to cut energy-intensity of GDP. So, if GDP rises 2.5 times between 2015 and 2030, India\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions can double while still meeting the Paris targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given India has already achieved more than 60% of its 2030 commitment at Paris of cutting energy-intensity by 33-35%, most expect it to announce a net-zero date of 2050, or a decade ahead of China\u2019s commitment. Indeed, India is just two percentage points short of its 2030 target\u2014also at Paris\u2014of having 40% of electricity generation capacity via non-fossil-fuels. But, as a study by Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW, bit.ly\/3w0K8Sc) makes clear, Paris and net-zero are entirely different. India\u2019s Paris commitment was to cut energy-intensity of GDP. So, if GDP rises 2.5 times between 2015 and 2030, India\u2019s greenhouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407842","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}