{"id":535529,"date":"2010-04-20T10:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2010-04-20T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:14:40","slug":"a-low-carbon-economy-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535529","title":{"rendered":"A low carbon economy: the gift that keeps on giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.roadmap2050.eu\/\">A Practical Guide To A Prosperous, Low Carbon Europe<\/a><\/em> is the latest McKinsey study to show how it is eminently affordable to achieve the transition to a low-carbon world. The headline on a post by<em> Financial Times<\/em> climate \u00fcber-scribe Fiona Harvey puts it best: \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/energy-source\/2010\/04\/13\/european-energy-in-2050\/\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/energy-source\/2010\/04\/13\/european-energy-in-2050\/\">Europe\u2019s energy in 2050: Cutting CO2 by 80% no more expensive than business as usual<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How is that possible?<\/p>\n<p>Initial capital expenditures are higher for renewable energy but operational cost savings along the way make up the difference. It\u2019s the gift that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, there are some very clear obstacles. The old economists\u2019 mantra applies here as well: if it\u2019s so cheap, why aren\u2019t we doing it already? Well, we ought to be. The obstacles are largely political, driven by vested interests. If you are just now building a new coal plant and haven\u2019t put much thought into carbon capture and storage technology, you may be less inclined to cheer than your neighbor investing in wind and solar.<\/p>\n<p>McKinsey isn\u2019t saying that everyone wins in this new world. The ones who see the future and act accordingly do. Most importantly, society and the planet win as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=3vWsuXsX1CU:OMRVm-CyxCU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=3vWsuXsX1CU:OMRVm-CyxCU:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=3vWsuXsX1CU:OMRVm-CyxCU:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=3vWsuXsX1CU:OMRVm-CyxCU:u0Zhe-nyOHo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=u0Zhe-nyOHo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=3vWsuXsX1CU:OMRVm-CyxCU:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/environmentaldefense\/~4\/3vWsuXsX1CU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Practical Guide To A Prosperous, Low Carbon Europe is the latest McKinsey study to show how it is eminently affordable to achieve the transition to a low-carbon world. The headline on a post by Financial Times climate \u00fcber-scribe Fiona Harvey puts it best: \u201cEurope\u2019s energy in 2050: Cutting CO2 by 80% no more expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}