{"id":135460,"date":"2024-11-18T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/we-stopped-nuclear-weapons-spreading-is-it-time-to-the-same-with-fossil-fuels\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T06:00:32","slug":"we-stopped-nuclear-weapons-spreading-is-it-time-to-the-same-with-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/we-stopped-nuclear-weapons-spreading-is-it-time-to-the-same-with-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"We stopped nuclear weapons spreading. Is it time to the same with fossil fuels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135460\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe fear of nuclear war forced nations to come together to stop the spread of atomic weapons. As the world confronts the reality of climate change, could a similar idea curb the use of fossil fuels?<\/p>\n<p>Could we agree to stop using fossil fuels like we did nukes?<br \/>\nIn 1958, at the height of the Cold War, Ireland&#8217;s minister for external affairs Frank Aiken gave a powerful speech at the UN General Assembly in New York. He asked the question: &#8220;How can the course of history be turned away from death and towards life?&#8221;  Aiken told world leaders that he believed the &#8220;growing destructiveness of modern weapons&#8221;, particularly nuclear ones, demanded a legal solution and called for global negotiations to prevent their spread. <\/p>\n<p>Three years later, the Cuban Missile Crisis between the US and the Soviet Union put the world perilously close to a full-blown nuclear war. But intensive diplomacy by Aiken and others meant that by 1961 the UN had unanimously agreed that the proliferation of nuclear weapons was an urgent problem that had to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>The work of building a legal agreement had begun and in 1970 the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (commonly known as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT) entered into force. A total of 191 states joined the treaty, including the five biggest holders of nuclear weapons: the US, USSR, UK, France and China. These five agreed not to give nuclear weapons to any another state and not to encourage others to develop them.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity is now at another precarious point, teetering close to a rise of 1.5C in average global temperatures, which risks huge changes to human health and lives. In 2023, another Irish leader, former president Mary Robinson, warned that the world faced an &#8220;existential threat&#8221;; that year was confirmed as the hottest on record. This year is likely to be also.<\/p>\n<p>But as world leaders and their diplomatic teams gather in Baku, Azerbaijan this week for COP29, nearly three decades of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have not succeeded in halting the emission of greenhouse gases.  A key issue \u2013 the exploitation of fossil fuels that have caused the vast majority of human emissions \u2013 is still only a small part of the discussion. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20241114-we-stopped-nukes-spreading-is-it-time-to-the-same-with-fossil-fuels\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20241114-we-stopped-nukes-spreading-is-it-time-to-the-same-with-fossil-fuels\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/we-stopped-nuclear-weapons-spreading-is-it-time-to-the-same-with-fossil-fuels\/\">We stopped nuclear weapons spreading. Is it time to the same with fossil fuels?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,599,16967],"class_list":["post-135460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-nuclear","tag-weapones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}