{"id":358,"date":"2021-06-15T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T00:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/?p=358"},"modified":"2021-09-16T23:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:44:58","slug":"prof-dhakal-speaks-to-reuters-journalist-michael-taylor-on-g7-climate-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/2021\/06\/15\/prof-dhakal-speaks-to-reuters-journalist-michael-taylor-on-g7-climate-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dhakal speaks to Reuters on G7 Climate Pledge and what it means to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-climate-change-g7-asia-analysis-trfn-idUSKCN2DQ1N4\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-climate-change-g7-asia-analysis-trfn-idUSKCN2DQ1N4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># After decades of rising emissions, just a statement on limiting coal-fired power by G7 (via) direct funding can hardly be seen as going far enough<br># The commitment would have been stronger with a clear timeline for phasing out [existing] fossil fuel infrastructure<br># But it could nonetheless prove a \u201cgame-changer\u201d in Asia-Pacific where coal remains a mainstay for power generation<br># The G7 decision to end new overseas coal funding will ratchet up pressure on Asian countries, from economic giants such as China to fast-developing economies like Bangladesh and Cambodia, to move away from coal<br># Without Asia changing course, the world cannot meet any meaningful global targets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-climate-change-g7-asia-analysis-trfn-idUSKCN2DQ1N4 # After decades of rising emissions, just a statement on limiting coal-fired power by G7 (via) direct funding can hardly be seen as going far enough# The commitment would have been stronger with a clear timeline for phasing out [existing] fossil fuel infrastructure# But it could nonetheless prove a \u201cgame-changer\u201d in Asia-Pacific where coal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}