COP26 after a few weeks of reflection
Teknisk Ukeblad’s own journalist Erik Martiniussen covered the climate conference COP26 for us. Now the impressions and the countries’ statements have sunk in and it’s time to have a chat.
Martiniussen has covered climate conferences since 2009 and is positively surprised by what is happening now. After all the quarrels he experienced in Copenhagen, there is a great deal of agreement on what must be done. Not least that the countries have now become so concrete that it is the only thing that coal must phase out, and that the regulations for quota trading are in place in a much better way, even though not everything is tip top. There are still a number of old quota agreements that were often counted up and taken into account by both parties.
It is also important that China and the United States are the only ones to do something independent of what they step on otherwise.
The pace is also important. Already next year, the goals must be revised, and the countries must find out how to intensify the work on fossil phasing out.
Then we will see if Martiniussen can renew the budding optimism next year, or if he comes back to the editorial office more exhausted. We need to keep up with our slightly pessimistic starting point in the podcast, but we’re getting better.
Technically speaking: Moberg & Valmot
Jan M. Moberg and Odd Richard Valmot in Teknisk Ukeblad, both are civil engineers with a solid technological background. Every week, they talk about current technological topics in TU’s podcast Technically.
Usually, Technically, publishes every Thursday afternoon.
Electric car – Technically speaking
TU has also started a podcast about electric cars. Electric car – Technically will usually be released every Tuesday afternoon, and is available both as rental audio recording and with video on TU.no.
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