Carbon lock-in happens when fossil fuel-intensive systems cause delay or prevent the transition to low-carbon alternatives.<\/p>\n
Carbon lock-in can take place in every sector and industry, and from the local to global level through multiple types of mechanisms. Once intentionally long-lived infrastructure, facilities and equipment are installed, it can take years or even decades before they are eventually replaced.<\/p>\n
If they are carbon-intensive, their lifetime greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions become enormous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Carbon lock-in happens when fossil fuel-intensive systems cause delay or prevent the transition to low-carbon alternatives. Carbon lock-in can take place in every sector and industry, and from the local to global level through multiple types of mechanisms. Once intentionally long-lived infrastructure, facilities and equipment are installed, it can take years or even decades before… Continue reading Carbon lock-in<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-146335","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}