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“Low probability, if not impossibility” of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050: Vaclav Smil

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March 27, 2024

Globally renowned energy expert Vaclav Smil says it’s highly improbable if not impossible to achieve the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2025, given the scale, speed and modalities required.

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Organizations:	International Energy Agency, J. P. Morgan, McKinsey Global Institute, and University of Manitoba
People:	Vaclav Smil
Topics:	"green" electricity infrastructure required, "green" energy technologies, 1997 Kyoto conference, cement, iron, plastics and ammonia production, charting a realistic energy future, continuing coal, oil and gas consumption, cost of worldwide energy transition, decarbonizing the global energy system, energy transition to net-zero emissions by 2050, global energy system, global warming and climate change, historically unprecedented energy transition, IEA World Energy Outlook, increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, industrial sectors that can't be readily electrified, magnitude of net-zero challenge, nature of global energy transitions, negative impacts of fossil fuels, no absolute worldwide decarbonization has occurred, peak consumption of fossil carbon, realistic possibility of achieving net zero by 2050, rising combustion of fossil fuels, small modular nuclear reactors, technology deployment that would be needed to achieve net zero, what would be required to achieve net zero, wind and solar energy, world production of fossil fuels, and zero-carbon processes to produce essential materials

“Low probability, if not impossibility” of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050: Vaclav Smil

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