{"id":477992,"date":"2022-03-23T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477992"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T07:13:29","slug":"ukraine-crisis-forces-world-to-confront-its-oil-and-gas-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ukraine-crisis-forces-world-to-confront-its-oil-and-gas-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine crisis forces world to confront its oil and gas addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the war in Ukraine highlights the perils of relying on Russian fossil fuels, France has been fast-tracking efforts to wean households off oil-fired heating, insulate their homes better and swap petrol and diesel cars for electric. <\/p>\n<p>Climate policy discussions in recent years have focused on phasing out coal &#8211; the most carbon-polluting fuel &#8211; but the Ukraine crisis is pushing some governments to confront their ongoing addiction to oil and natural gas, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever the obstacles before us, the transition to a world without fossil fuels is more than ever the safest and most effective way to guarantee our future and our energy sovereignty,&#8221; French ecological transition minister, Barbara Pompili, told reporters last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the war in Ukraine highlights the perils of relying on Russian fossil fuels, France has been fast-tracking efforts to wean households off oil-fired heating, insulate their homes better and swap petrol and diesel cars for electric. Climate policy discussions in recent years have focused on phasing out coal &#8211; the most carbon-polluting fuel &#8211; but the Ukraine crisis is pushing some governments to confront their ongoing addiction to oil and natural gas, too. &#8220;Whatever the obstacles before us, the transition to a world without fossil fuels is more than ever the safest and most effective way to guarantee our [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477992","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=477992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}