Cop30<\/a> in Bel\u00e9m to establish roadmaps for accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels and deforestation.<\/p>\n\u201cWe encourage governments and institutions to draw on the panel\u2019s analyses, policy briefs and country-level engagement to strengthen nationally determined contributions, inform sectoral strategies and accelerate implementation of just and orderly energy transitions across different national contexts,\u201d Andr\u00e9 Aranha Corr\u00eaa do Lago said.<\/p>\n
The Colombian and Dutch hosts of the Santa Marta meeting have also expressed support for the initiative, which has been convened by Johan Rockstr\u00f6m of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Carlos Nobre of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n
Rockstr\u00f6m said the presence of a third of the world\u2019s countries at Santa Marta would help keep the transition from fossil fuels on the global agenda and demonstrate how it can be achieved. \u201cThese are solvable problems that can create better futures for local communities,\u201d he said. \u201cThe science panel can play a unique role in providing updates on what needs to happen year by year.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 54 countries that are attending the fast track transition conference include major fossil fuel producers such as Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil and Angola, for whom giving up a major source of income will be challenging.<\/p>\n
Those challenges, and their possible solutions, were outlined in the new draft roadmap for Colombia, which gets about half of its export revenues from coal. Drawn up by global experts with Colombian officials, the plan says that a rapid switch to cheaper and more efficient renewables would bring long-term benefits to energy security, health, the climate and the economy.<\/p>\n
Reducing fossil fuel use by 90% by 2050 would allow energy demand to continue growing while generating direct economic benefits estimated at $280bn over the next 24 years, the roadmap calculates. \u201cConsiderable upfront investment is needed to achieve this transition, but by the early 2040s, this delivers annual net savings to the Colombian economy,\u201d the plan states.<\/p>\n
The authors stressed this outline needs to be debated and refined, but they hoped it could help to inform the national debate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are really excited about the roadmap,\u201d said Prof Piers Forster, director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds. \u201cIt shows that it is cost effective to phase out petrol and diesel. And also very cost effective to build renewables. And now we all appreciate the importance of energy security.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he hoped other countries would follow suit and develop their own roadmaps and climate councils. \u201cWe want to work with countries to build internal capacity to do it themselves because they understand the opportunities, roadblocks and political sensibilities within their countries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A panel of global experts has been launched to provide scientific input for countries that want to reduce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-418539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}