{"id":446591,"date":"2021-11-01T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T04:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446591"},"modified":"2021-11-01T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T04:18:01","slug":"g20-leaders-pledge-carbon-neutrality-by-mid-century-make-commitments-on-coal-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/g20-leaders-pledge-carbon-neutrality-by-mid-century-make-commitments-on-coal-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 leaders pledge carbon neutrality by mid-century, make commitments on coal financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the final day of the G20 summit on Sunday, leaders made a commitment to reach carbon neutrality \u201cby or around mid-century\u201d. In a final communique, they also called for \u201cmeaningful and effective\u201d action to limit global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>However, the communique contained few concrete actions and made no reference to a specific 2050 date to achieve net-zero carbon emissions that scientists say is vital to stave off disastrous climate change, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the communique removed references in a previous draft to the target to \u201creduce emissions significantly\u201d. Instead, it stated that it recognises that the reduction of emissions is one of the quickest, most feasible and most cost-effective ways to limit climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the final day of the G20 summit on Sunday, leaders made a commitment to reach carbon neutrality \u201cby or around mid-century\u201d. In a final communique, they also called for \u201cmeaningful and effective\u201d action to limit global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. However, the communique contained few concrete actions and made no reference to a specific 2050 date to achieve net-zero carbon emissions that scientists say is vital to stave off disastrous climate change, Reuters reported. Moreover, the communique removed references in a previous draft to the target to \u201creduce emissions significantly\u201d. Instead, it stated that it recognises that 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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446591","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=446591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}