Right-wing media are suggesting that the energy transition has permanently fallen out of favor as a global priority, evidenced by business leaders\u2019 and governments\u2019 rapid shift in focus toward artificial intelligence. But other recent milestones and ambitious projects signal that long-term interest in climate action is still very much alive.<\/p>\n
At the World Economic Forum\u2019s annual convening of elites in Davos, for instance, which has championed corporate climate ambitions for the past several years, right-wing media claimed the message this year was that renewable energy \u201cliterally cannot be used.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although it\u2019s true that U.S. financial companies such as\u00a0BlackRock<\/a> \u2014 whose CEO, Larry Fink, headed this year\u2019s conference \u2014 have largely\u00a0abandoned<\/a> net zero goals, and the Trump administration, which has\u00a0encouraged<\/a> fossil fuel expansion abroad,\u00a0brought that <\/a>attitude to the conference, conversations about the clean energy transition continued to\u00a0take place<\/a> at Davos.<\/p>\n And reporting from\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/a> and\u00a0CNBC<\/a> demonstrate that business leaders are still talking about renewables, and the European Union just hit \u201c\u2018a major tipping point\u2019 of the clean energy era\u201d according to\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>, with renewables generating \u201c30% of the EU\u2019s electricity in 2025\u201d compared to just 29% from coal, oil, and gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-wing media are suggesting that the energy transition has permanently fallen out of favor as a global priority,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-448290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}