{"id":17896,"date":"2023-12-08T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17896"},"modified":"2025-04-05T07:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:51:55","slug":"ogdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ogdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a dedicated initiative for\u00a0the oil and gas sector.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to induce substantial impact in\u00a0addressing climate challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, 50 companies, collectively responsible for over 40 percent of global oil production, have committed to the OGDC.<\/li>\n<li>National Oil Companies have shown historic participation, constituting over 60 percent of the total signatories, marking a noteworthy shift towards decarbonization within this sector.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0integral to the Global Decarbonization Accelerator (GDA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about the Global Decarbonization Accelerator<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was introduced at the\u00a0World Climate Action Summit.<\/li>\n<li>The GDA focuses on\u00a0three primary pillars:\n<ul>\n<li>Scaling the energy system of the future.<\/li>\n<li>o Decarbonizing the present energy system.<\/li>\n<li>o addressing methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This strategic plan aims for a comprehensive and simultaneous transformation of both energy demand and supply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Decarbonisation?<\/h3>\n<p>Decarbonisation is the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions through the use of low carbon power sources, achieving a lower output of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/international\/global-initiative-launched-accelerate-climate-action-oil-and-gas-sector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Global Initiative Launched to Accelerate Climate Action in Oil and Gas Sector<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>oil and gas sector, Global Decarbonization Accelerator   World Climate Action Summit, ,Prelims Pointers, current affairs for Prelims revision, UPSC Current Affairs, daily current affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}