Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal

Archived version: https://archive.ph/n97OR

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    7 months ago

    The end user doesn’t care if their house is warmed by a gas furnace or an electric heat pump, so long as their house is warm and it’s affordable.

    Those 57 companies are the ones that don’t want to change and they lobby, bribe, lie, cheat and steal to keep their hold on the market.

    Those 57 companies are both the root cause of the problem and the easiest thing to change.

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      You can’t magically change heating source for the whole affected households though. And the end user will definitely care in case of retrofit with the impact of the changeS needed. Plus costs unless you also magically address that but electricity is still very expensive.