The twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties (COP26) is in fact the twenty-fourth of the United Nations conferences on climate change, the first, that of Kyoto, having been held in December 1997. […]
24 years after the Kyoto conference, the world production of renewable energy represents less than 5% of the energy produced with more than 20% of energy produced by oil, around 17% by coal, approximately 15% by natural gas (three forms of energy producing carbon dioxide), less than 5% by hydroelectricity (a renewable energy, but soon reached the limit of sites that can be exploited) and around 2.5% by nuclear (which does not produce carbon dioxide, but poses the problem of radioactive waste).
From the above, it is evident that oil, coal and gas will be needed for a long time to come.
On the other hand, I would like someone to enlighten me on a particular point, electric vehicles, which many governments not only promote, but legislate to make them mandatory and ban the production of gasoline vehicles within a few years. .
That this be reasoned and possibly reasonable in Quebec, I am willing to admit, because more than 95% of energy is, I believe, hydroelectricity, but Quebec is an exception in the world. Everywhere else, an electric vehicle is an ecological aberration, because in order to be able to use these vehicles, it is necessary to produce electricity, produced, even now and for years to come, mainly with oil or coal or gas, with at passage of efficiencies obviously lower than 100%, both for the production and for the transport of this electricity, so that in the end, an electric vehicle is essentially more polluting than a gasoline vehicle of the same power!