Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels

In 2024, 81% of the world’s total energy supply came from burning fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency. Even though renewables such as solar and wind power are meeting the vast majority of net new electricity demand, fossil fuel’s share of the energy mix is still around 80%. To stop increasing temperatures, we need to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions as soon as possible. Transitioning away from fossil fuels will be the most important part of this effort. We’ll never get our fossil-fuel usage down to zero, because there are some intractable uses, but we need to get fossil emissions down to a level where we can net them out with programs that remove GHGs from the atmosphere. We have no feasible, practical, and responsible ways to net out the current levels of fossil emissions, but this might be practical if fossil emissions were reduced to 10% what they are today. That’s what we need to focus on. Read more of the blog here