"We need to change the lifestyle of people"


The world has tools to cut emissions massively but is not using them or investing enough in technology needed to avert dangerous climate change, according to Nobuo Tanaka, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency:

Nobuo Tanaka said little time should be spent on celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol to tackle global warming, because rapid emissions growth was making its targets less relevant and governments were moving too slowly.

"The most scarce resource on earth is not natural resources, nor the capital investment or money, but time. And now is the time for action," he told a news conference on the sidelines of UN climate talks in the Indonesian island of Bali.


Nobuo Tanaka noted that governments need to have systems ready to convince investors to channel an estimated US$22 trillion required to reform the energy sector by 2030. And such change must be implemented to "change the lifestyle of people".

Reuters: World Not Doing Enough on Climate Change - IEA

Comments

Pandabonium said…
I've changed my lifestyle. What's up with the rest of the world that it will take them until 2030?
Martin J Frid said…
Hahaha.

One down, five billion to go. Or is it six now? I lost count.

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