Correct G7 call, but wrong timescale - Frank Jotzo

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he G7’s call for decarbonisation is the right message, but on the wrong timescale, according to the Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy at Australian National University.

Frank Jotzo  - right G7
call, but needs
to happen earlier.

Frank Jotzo writes on The Conversation that the low-carbon transformation needs to happen largely by the middle, not the end, of this century.

“The recipe for a low-carbon energy system has three essential ingredients, as set out in the global and Australian reports by the Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Project (of which I am a research partner),” Jotzo writes.

”First, achieve radical improvements in energy productivity – the amount of economic output per unit of energy use. Most aspects of most economies are far below the energy efficiency frontier. You’re probably reading this in a building that uses far more energy than necessary, and you might have travelled there in a relatively inefficient car. And depending on what industry you work in, there is a fair chance that it uses outdated equipment somewhere within its operation,” he writes.

Read Jotzo’s story - “The G7 is right to call for fossil fuel phase-out, but it can happen sooner”.