{"id":4531,"date":"2016-01-12T13:29:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2016-01-18T01:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:06:52","slug":"clean-energy-costs-could-price-out-the-poorest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/clean-energy-costs-could-price-out-the-poorest\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean energy costs could price out the poorest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reaching strict climate goals could mean\u00a0that a sizeable number of people will\u00a0remain dependent on traditional stoves,\u00a0despite the negative health impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers examined the relationship\u00a0between climate mitigation policies and\u00a0clean energy costs in South Asia. They\u00a0found the most stringent mitigation\u00a0policies could increase the cost of clean\u00a0fuel by 38 per cent, leaving as many as\u00a0433 million South Asians unable to afford\u00a0clean energy for cooking.<\/p>\n<p>The authors\u00a0believe that careful policy design could\u00a0help compensate for the additional access\u00a0costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nenergy.2015.10\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Energy\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>January 11<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"grid grid-12 tiny-space-below\">Shonali Pachauri, Laxenburg\u00a0International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,\u00a0Laxenburg,\u00a0Austria<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaching strict climate goals could mean\u00a0that a sizeable number of people will\u00a0remain dependent on traditional stoves,\u00a0despite the negative health impacts. Researchers examined the relationship\u00a0between climate mitigation policies and\u00a0clean energy costs in South Asia. They\u00a0found the most stringent mitigation\u00a0policies could increase the cost of clean\u00a0fuel by 38 per cent, leaving as many as\u00a0433 million South Asians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1445,644,51],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-conservation","tag-energy","tag-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1b5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}