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The International Energy
\nAgency has delivered a tough and pointed warning to the energy industry. The
\nEnergy Agency emphasized the fact that investors should not earmark funding for
\nnew natural gas, oil and coal-based projects any longer, if humankind wants to
\nreach the zero-gas emissions target until 2050. It is estimated that, globally,
\ngas emissions this year are sure to increase at an alarming rate as global
\neconomy recovers from the pandemic-generated crisis. Climate-wise, the economic
\nrecovery occurring in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis is in no way sustainable
\nat the moment. The Agency also added that governments worldwide need to move
\nfast in order to reduce gas emissions or else we’re highly likely to face an
\neven more serious situation in 2022.UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has
\nin turn called on the developed countries to gradually eliminate the use of
\ncoal until 2030 and stop building coal-fired power plants altogether. All that
\nhas occurred against the backdrop of an estimated increase in electrical energy
\ndemand, the fastest in the last decade. There is nonetheless good news to that
\neffect, such as the reported increase in the production of solar and wind
\nenergy in China. By the same token, the government in Berlin has adopted a plan
\nmeant to speed up the implementation of the climate objectives; Germany is set
\nto reach the neutrality of gas emissions by 2045. Actually, the developed
\ncountries in the last months have ambitiously committed themselves to reducing
\npolluting emissions. Such far-reaching pledges need to be complied with. In
\nturn, French president Emmanuel Macron shared the belief whereby the African
\nstates should not be stuck up with the fossil energies. The African states will
\nhave to make sensible progress to that end, at the same pace with the rest of
\nthe world. Accordingly, massive investments need to be drawn in renewable
\nenergies sector. In fact, the appeal made by the French president highlights
\nthe heart of the matter from the viewpoint of production and the economy.
\nBasically, it is all about a groundbreaking change in society and economy. <\/p>\n
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Here
\nis what Professor Mircea Dutu told Radio Romania:<\/p>\n
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In the last
\n200 years or so, the progress made by the entire society and the economy on the
\nplanet has been based on an energy model that heavily relied on fossil fuels:
\ncoal, oil and gas. Therefore, under the circumstances, in a bid to harmonize
\nthe economic development with what happens in terms of climate change, the
\noption has been made for the change of that fundamental way of producing
\nenergy, that is doing away with the fossil fuel energy and using the renewable
\nenergy instead, and, in some case, the nuclear energy, at any rate, such an
\noption resorted to energy sources with low greenhouse gas emissions. The stated
\naim of the action to be taken at global level, in a bid to mitigate effects and
\nadapt to the ensuing climate change, is, from the sheer climate viewpoint,
\nreaching the 2 degree Celsius temperature limit, even 1.5
\nCelsius degrees, if possible, as against the reading levels prior to the modern
\nage, the pre-industrial age, that is, and concurrently but definitely
\nconcertedly, reaching the climate neutrality level in mid-century, all that as
\na component of the action humankind takes in order to comply with the set
\ntarget of reaching the average temperature limit at global level.<\/p>\n
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To what extent human
\nactivities have accelerated changes in climate at global level, as of late? To
\na great extent, certainly. And we are even more accurate stating that than we
\nwere 10 years ago, or at least that’s what climate expert Roxana Bojariu says.
\nAccording to the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Climate change
\nstudy group, human activities have caused 95% of the reported increase in
\ntemperature readings beginning the second half of the 20th century. <\/p>\n
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Roxana Bojariu:<\/p>\n
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