S1E52: The road to reaching net-zero emissions: Green Pulse Ep 52

Green Pulse Ep 52: The road to reaching net-zero emissions


16:46 mins


Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, The Straits
Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from
biodiversity conservation to climate change.


Reaching “net-zero emissions” is an aspiration of many companies
and governments worldwide. Some plan to reach this target by
2050, while others, including China and Singapore, have set
themselves a longer timeline to reach this. But what does this
goal really mean, and how do entities plan to get there? How much
can renewable energy contribute to this global fight?


In this episode, ST environment correspondent Audrey Tan and
climate change editor David Fogarty discuss the road to net-zero
with Dr Jeffrey Logan, from the Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. 


They discuss the following points:
What does net-zero emissions really mean? (1:21)  What
sparked the rush to net-zero? (2:35)  How will growing climate
regulation, and expectations from courtrooms and boardrooms, affect
the operations of fossil fuel companies?  (5:22) What “tools”
do organisations have to decarbonise? (8:26)  US climate envoy
John Kerry recently came under fire for saying that half of
emissions cuts will come from future tech. Is this true? (12:07)
What does this energy transformation mean for individuals?
(14:25) 

Produced by: Audrey Tan (audreyt@sph.com.sg), David Fogarty
(dfogarty@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis & Adam Azlee


Edited by: Adam Azlee


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