Skip to content
Apply
Stories

Why aren’t we using the global gas crisis to go green?

People in this story

President Joe Biden is releasing 1 million barrels daily from U.S. oil reserves in hope of staving off gasoline inflation. Germany and other European nations continue to buy natural gas and oil from Russia, effectively undermining the pain of war sanctions. The stresses surrounding the global petroleum market should be hastening governments to lessen their dependence on fossil fuels, says Jennie C. Stephens, Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at Northeastern. And yet the world seems to be doubling-down on oil and gas in the short term in defiance of a disturbing report issued by the United Nations climate science panel Monday.

Greenhouse gas emissions must peak before 2025 to avoid the worst outcomes of climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  “It’s now or never,” said IPCC co-Chair Jim Skea. “Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.”

Stephens says the conclusions are obvious.

Continue reading at News@Northeastern.

More Stories

Photo of the 2023 “Dialogue of Civilizations: Geneva

Geneva is the hub of world politics and Northeastern students are there learning how negotiations happen on a global scale

11.27.2023
FILE - In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan. After 20 years America is ending its “forever” war in Afghanistan. After the terror assault of 9/11 the world rallied behind America and together the US and NATO entered Afghanistan to hunt down and destroy the mastermind Osama bin Laden and his al Qaida terrorist network. But the US and its allies have been dragged into a war between a re-emergent Taliban and an Afghan government, dominated by warlords, whose power and wealth were alienating ordinary Afghans. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

How should TikTok have handled the Osama bin Laden letter?

11.24.2023
YouTuber Mr. Beast leads the Tampa Bay Buccaneers out of the tunnel prior to an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023 in Tampa, Fla.

From the Ice Bucket Challenge to MrBeast — does ‘stunt philanthropy’ make the world a better place?

11.28.23
Northeastern Global News