{"id":6696,"date":"2012-06-18T21:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:44:30","slug":"clean-energy-trends-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/clean-energy-trends-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Energy Trends on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GlobalSubsidies_fail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GlobalSubsidies_fail-300x280.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"GlobalSubsidies_fail\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GlobalSubsidies_fail-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GlobalSubsidies_fail.png 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As the world converges in Rio de Janeiro for the biggest sustainability conference of the year, the Rio+20, twitter activity is booming. One of the most popular hashtags today was #endfossilfuelsubsidies, which aims to end subsidies for fossil fuel energy.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A sustainable future must hinge on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\" target=\"_blank\">alternative energy<\/a>, such as solar and wind power, but most subsidies still go to dirty fossil fuels, which attract twelve times more subsidies than clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter storm, as the organizers have called it, was launched from a homonymous website. From there visitors can sign a petition asking G20 leaders to commit to clean energy. It says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As concerned global citizens, we urge you to honour your previous commitments to end taxpayer handouts to the fossil fuel industry. To save our planet we need a game-changer now &#8212; we call on you to first lead by example, and then make ending all polluter payments the top global priority for the Rio Earth Summit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to an eye-opening study by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/jan\/19\/fossil-fuel-subsidies-carbon-target \" target=\"_blank\">International Energy Agency<\/a>, if we eliminated subsidies for coal, gas and oil we could save as much as Germany&#8217;s annual greenhouse gas emissions each year by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>More than a million people have signed the petition. Why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you <a href=\"http:\/\/endfossilfuelsubsidies.org\" target=\"_blank\">add your voice to it<\/a>? Clean energy needs official support and policies at this stage, as the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/germany-reaches-solar-power-generation-record\/\" target=\"_blank\"> German case illustrates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @energyrefuge<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored video:<\/em><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.unrulymedia.com\/wildfire_72383936.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/video-a-chronology-of-fossil-fuel-dependency\/\" title=\"Video: A Chronology of Fossil Fuel Dependency\">Video: A Chronology of Fossil Fuel Dependency<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/protest-in-london-against-uk-biofuel-subsidies\/\" title=\"Protest in London Against UK Biofuel Subsidies\">Protest in London Against UK Biofuel Subsidies<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/lets-drill-for-heat-not-oil\/\" title=\"Let&#8217;s drill for heat, not oil\">Let&#8217;s drill for heat, not oil<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/see-how-big-the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-is\/\" title=\"See how big the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is\">See how big the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/latin-america-starts-to-migrate-to-renewable-energy\/\" title=\"Latin America starts to migrate to renewable energy\">Latin America starts to migrate to renewable energy<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world converges in Rio de Janeiro for the biggest sustainability conference of the year, the Rio+20, twitter activity is booming. One of the most popular hashtags today was #endfossilfuelsubsidies, which aims to end subsidies for fossil fuel energy. Related Posts:Video: A Chronology of Fossil Fuel DependencyProtest in London Against UK Biofuel SubsidiesLet&#8217;s drill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,592,211,33,19],"tags":[1722,1148,1519],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fossil-fuel","category-policies","category-politics","category-solar-power","category-wind-energy","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-subsidies","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9018,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions\/9018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}