Re: new IPCC report

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

It's still always a problem of the rich countries, especially the United
States.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > https://news.yahoo.com/ipcc-window-to-avert-catastrophic-climate-change-is-quickly-closing-161926811.html
 > 
 > A key problem is that energy utilities, car manufacturers, airlines, 
 > steel producers and other industries have no financial incentive to 
 > act without governments offering rewards or penalties to encourage 
 > participation.
 > 
 > “Does the technology exist so that you could pull this off? The 
 > answer is yeah, it does,” Jae Edmonds, chief scientist at the 
 > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Joint Global Change Research 
 > Institute and a coauthor of the IPCC report, told Yahoo News. “Do we 
 > have the policies and measures that have put us on track to get to 
 > net-zero [emissions] by a 2050 timeframe? Not yet.”