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Environmentalists Support Leaving Fossil Fuels In The Ground

Jan 13, 2021 | Pratirodh Bureau

FILE PHOTO: Vapour is released into the sky at a refinery in Wilmington, California in March 2012. REUTERS/Bret Hartman

Economic, climate and healthcare upheavals point to the need to move toward developing cleaner energy sources, environment-friendly jobs and healthier communities, participants in a Reuters Next panel said on Tuesday.

A new U.S. presidential administration promising to reverse job losses, re-embrace the Paris climate accord to limit warming and stem the COVID-19 pandemic creates an opportunity to rethink the dominance of fossil fuels over the economy, they said.

“We have an opportunity right now to responsibly put in place a plan to manage the decline of the oil and gas” industry, said Janet Redman, climate campaign director at environmental group Greenpeace USA.

Shifting incentives away from fossil fuels and investing in public infrastructure and jobs can halt the greenhouse emissions leading to climate warming, she said. U.S. taxpayers spend $20 billion a year to subsidize the cleanup of abandoned sites and lost worker pensions from troubled companies, she added.

Fund managers and other investors are pulling money out of fossil fuel suppliers because of dwindling returns, said Kassie Siegel, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute. The pandemic-driven decline in oil and gas consumption is accelerating that decline, putting additional projects at risk.

“New fossil fuel extraction doesn’t make sense from any group’s perspective,” Siegel said. Communities are pushing back against issuing new permits because of the risk of environmental hazards as economics weaken, she said.

There must be a coordinated response to the pandemic, climate change and economic recovery, the panelists said.

“We need big investment, we need big thinking about how to transition communities and working away from fossil fuel production,” said Peter Erickson, a senior scientist and climate policy director at the Stockholm Environment Institute.

Initiatives in Spain to retrain coal miners for jobs in other industries provide models for other countries.

“There are lots of good examples to draw from,” said Erickson.

by Gary McWilliams/Reuters

Tags: clean energy, Climate Change, COVID-19, environment, Fossil fuels, Pratirodh

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