Ekins, Paul;
(2023)
Kicking the addiction to fossil fuels.
In:
Stopping Climate Change: Policies for Real Zero.
(pp. 90-115).
Routledge: London, UK.
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Abstract
This chapter explores the issue of fossil fuels and the companies that supply it. Fossil fuels still supply 80% of the world’s primary energy demand. These will need to be phased out for climate stability, but countries’ and companies’ plans to produce fossil fuels are wildly inconsistent with the temperature targets of the Paris Agreement. Fossil fuel businesses, and their investments, remain overwhelmingly focused on fossil fuels and their public utterances about their activities are at wide variance from the overall profile of their activities. Public pressure against them is growing, but so far neither these nor government policy have proved decisive in reducing fossil fuel supply.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Kicking the addiction to fossil fuels |
| ISBN-13: | 9781003438007 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003438007-5 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003438007-5 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10190189 |
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