{"id":534925,"date":"2022-11-07T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=534925"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T06:36:11","slug":"cop27-what-pact-world-burnt-more-fuel-than-ever-since-last-years-glasgow-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cop27-what-pact-world-burnt-more-fuel-than-ever-since-last-years-glasgow-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"COP27: What pact? World burnt more fuel than ever since last year&#8217;s Glasgow summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The burning of fossil fuels caused 86% of all CO\u2082 emissions during the past ten years. Despite being the primary culprits of global heating, coal, oil and gas were barely mentioned in the official texts of previous UN climate change summits. <\/p>\n<p>That all changed at COP26 in November 2021, where the Glasgow climate pact was signed. The agreement contained the first ever acknowledgement of the role of fossil fuels in causing climate change. It also urged nations to phase out measures which subsidise the extraction or consumption of fossil fuels and to \u201cphase-down\u201d coal power. <\/p>\n<p>With COP27 beginning in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, it\u2019s time for a progress update. Unfortunately, it\u2019s not good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The burning of fossil fuels caused 86% of all CO\u2082 emissions during the past ten years. Despite being the primary culprits of global heating, coal, oil and gas were barely mentioned in the official texts of previous UN climate change summits. That all changed at COP26 in November 2021, where the Glasgow climate pact was signed. The agreement contained the first ever acknowledgement of the role of fossil fuels in causing climate change. It also urged nations to phase out measures which subsidise the extraction or consumption of fossil fuels and to \u201cphase-down\u201d coal power. With COP27 beginning in Sharm [&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-534925","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\/534925","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=534925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}