{"id":302940,"date":"2017-04-18T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ecf0a04a2b6149ab397638b9dd7e8c07"},"modified":"2017-04-18T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:00:29","slug":"climate-change-and-risk-to-fossil-fuel-industry-sustainability-train-has-left-the-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=302940","title":{"rendered":"Climate change and risk to fossil fuel industry: Sustainability train has left the station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial activity in fossil fuels is increasingly at odds with global actions to reduce the threat of climate change. Burning coal, oil, and natural gas is responsible for two-thirds of humanity&#8217;s emissions of greenhouse gases, and yet provides more than 20% of GDP in two dozen nation states. By Citicorp&#8217;s estimate, current commitments to reduce these emissions could mean forgoing $100 trillion in fossil fuel revenues by 2050\u2014representing a huge disruption to global affairs, undermining national budgets and corporate balance sheets while exposing stakeholders, including pension holders and ordinary citizens in resource-exporting states, to myriad risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial activity in fossil fuels is increasingly at odds with global actions to reduce the threat of climate change. Burning coal, oil, and natural gas is responsible for two-thirds of humanity&#8217;s emissions of greenhouse gases, and yet provides more than 20% of GDP in two dozen nation states. By Citicorp&#8217;s estimate, current commitments to reduce these emissions could mean forgoing $100 trillion in fossil fuel revenues by 2050&mdash;representing a huge disruption to global affairs, undermining national budgets and corporate balance sheets while exposing stakeholders, including pension holders and ordinary citizens in resource-exporting states, to myriad risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302941,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302940\/revisions\/302941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}