[Herald Interview] Former IEA chief calls for strong global governance to achieve net zero
The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, calls for limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, stressing that emissions need to be reduced by 45 percent by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. Nobuo Tanaka, former executive director of the International Energy Agency, says that the world needs to do a lot more to countermeasure global warming and achieve these goals. “The IEA’s net zero by 2050 scenario tells us th
May 2, 2024