{"id":428567,"date":"2021-08-02T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428567"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:32:45","slug":"climate-goals-at-risk-if-only-the-rich-countries-adopt-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/climate-goals-at-risk-if-only-the-rich-countries-adopt-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate goals at risk if only the 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","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.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428567","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=428567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}