{"id":7217,"date":"2022-07-29T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T01:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/?p=7217"},"modified":"2022-08-01T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:59:38","slug":"read-icleis-official-position-on-sustainable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/29\/read-icleis-official-position-on-sustainable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"READ: ICLEI&#8217;s official position on sustainable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Limiting the rise in global temperatures heavily relies on the transition away from fossil fuels to zero-carbon sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICLEI &#8211; Local Governments for Sustainability favors energy that is derived from sunlight, wind, geothermal processes, biomass, and water (including hydropower, oceanic\/tidal energy). It is important that these renewable energy (RE) sources are applied in context-specific, nature-conscious and socially-sensitive ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recognise that nuclear energy sources (such as uranium, plutonium etc.) have a low carbon emission profile and are naturally-occurring. However, they are not replenishable in the same sense and therefore are not considered sustainable; they should be considered as a last resort and should be replaced by sustainable energy sources where possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read ICLEI\u2019s official position on sustainable energy <a href=\"https:\/\/iclei.org\/publication\/iclei-position-on-sustainable-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limiting the rise in global temperatures heavily relies on the transition away from fossil fuels to zero-carbon sources. ICLEI &#8211; Local Governments for Sustainability favors energy that is derived from sunlight, wind, geothermal processes, biomass, and water (including hydropower, oceanic\/tidal energy). It is important that these renewable energy (RE) sources are applied in context-specific, nature-conscious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51,101],"tags":[187,161,976,975,974,122,758,766],"class_list":["post-7217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-news","category-perspectives","tag-energy","tag-iclei","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-position","tag-renewable-energy","tag-renewables","tag-sustainable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7219,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions\/7219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}