Fossil fuels causing cost-of-living crisis: climate expert

Japan Today | Sep 4, 2022 at 11:00 PM
  • The cost-of-living crisis pushing millions of people towards poverty in Europe is driven by fossil fuels.
  • Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the new book “Earth For All,” said that spiraling inflation was in large measure a result of decades of government failures to decarbonize their economies.
  • The second — the “Great Leap” scenario — sees unprecedented mobilization of resources to produce five changes: eradicate poverty and inequality, empower women, transform the global food system towards more plant-based diets, and rapidly decarbonize energy.