{"id":428493,"date":"2021-08-02T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T03:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428493"},"modified":"2021-08-02T09:04:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T03:34:50","slug":"paris-climate-goals-at-risk-if-only-rich-countries-adopt-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/paris-climate-goals-at-risk-if-only-rich-countries-adopt-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris climate goals at risk if only rich countries adopt electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s plan to phase out combustion-engine vehicles has put the region at the forefront of climate protection. Yet without progress cleaning up poorer nations\u2019 roads, it won\u2019t be enough to keep global warming below dangerous levels.<\/p>\n<p>Take Nairobi, for example. The Kenyan capital\u2019s vehicle fleet doubles every eight years and its roughly 4.5 million inhabitants rely on minibus taxis called Matatus to get around. While they\u2019re cheap, they tend to be older and often run on dirty diesel. <\/p>\n<p>While virtually all of the world\u2019s population growth by 2050 is forecast to take place in developing countries, thousands of cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America may stick to fossil fuel-powered vans, buses and motorcycles for decades, said Rob de Jong, who heads the mobility unit at the United Nations\u2019 environment program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s plan to phase out combustion-engine vehicles has put the region at the forefront of climate protection. Yet without progress cleaning up poorer nations\u2019 roads, it won\u2019t be enough to keep global warming below dangerous levels. Take Nairobi, for example. The Kenyan capital\u2019s vehicle fleet doubles every eight years and its roughly 4.5 million inhabitants rely on minibus taxis called Matatus to get around. While they\u2019re cheap, they tend to be older and often run on dirty diesel. While virtually all of the world\u2019s population growth by 2050 is forecast to take place in developing countries, thousands of cities in [&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-428493","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\/428493","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=428493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}