{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Flanigan's Eco-Logic","title":"Jules Kortenhorst - Global Coalition at ETC Is Now Committed to Net-Zero Emissions","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2004,"description":"Jules Kortenhorst is the co-chair of the Energy Transition Commission (ETC), a group of 50+ \"wickedly smart people\" dedicated to effective analysis and insights to drive down CO2 emissions and to accelerating the transition to carbon-free energy. The former chief executive officer of Rocky Mountain Institute who grew RMI from a staff of 50 to 600, Jules is passionate about the ETC's critical work to battle the rise in greenhouse gases that are threatening the planet and humanity. \nThe ETC has just released a report, \"Energy Transition Monitor 2026,\" that presents good and bad news. The bad news is profoundly disturbing: Rising CO2 emissions are likely to eclipse the Conference of Parties' 2015 Paris Agreement to maintain the average, global temperature to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The good news is that there has been remarkable progress in stemming the emission of gases responsible for global warming.\nTed and Jules discuss the ETC, its genesis and mission, and its new report. Jules calls its findings a paradox: One one hand the rise of renewables and clean energy technologies worldwide is far outpacing all expectations and projections. Renewables are coming on faster and cheaper than anyone had expected. Clean energy supplied 99% of new power growth last year. China has more solar installed than coal, it has more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined. Solar and wind and batteries and EVs are rising worldwide... and their costs are dropping dramatically. China is producing and deploying electric trucks that no one thought could replace internal combustion engine trucks. That's the good news.\nThe bad news, the sobering part of the paradox, is that emissions are not falling. In fact, they are at best \"plateauing,\" and in many cases rising. Climate outcomes are \"off track.\" A United Nations Environmental Program report, also just released in August, echoes this finding. It states that an \"overshoot\" is...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7kUbICrzk0aEuZffrVBGprBuBqZJlmqp9h-fda_2pHg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM1MTQ0LzE3MTE1/NjgzMTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}