{"id":590,"date":"2011-02-18T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T01:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=590"},"modified":"2011-02-18T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T01:39:16","slug":"the-economist-february-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"The Economist (February 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been little success in slowing climate change or reducing carbon emissions. Sweeping new international agreements are elusive. The Economist believes it\u2019s time to look at smaller measures that can gain quick agreement. For example, the industrial gas HFC-134 could be eliminated under the existing Montreal protocol. Substitutes are already available for this gas which \u201cdelivers more than 1,000 times more warming than carbon dioxide, mass for mass.\u201d Banning HFC-134 would make a difference and could be done quickly. Success in smaller agreements may even \u201chelp build the trust, ambition and momentum needed to get further on deals to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been little success in slowing climate change or reducing carbon emissions. Sweeping new international agreements are elusive. The Economist believes it\u2019s time to look at smaller measures that can gain quick agreement. For example, the industrial gas HFC-134 could be eliminated under the existing Montreal protocol. Substitutes are already available for this gas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[507,62,183,63],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-carbon","tag-climate-change","tag-emissions","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}