{"id":1609,"date":"2024-06-04T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T09:09:45","slug":"what-is-the-role-of-geothermal-towards-mitigating-the-impact-of-climate-change-wed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/what-is-the-role-of-geothermal-towards-mitigating-the-impact-of-climate-change-wed\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the role of geothermal energy in mitigating the impact of climate change? #WED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Ms. Irene Cheptum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Role and Department:<\/strong> Environmental Scientist from the Safety Health and Environment Department (SHE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the role of geothermal energy in mitigating the impact of climate change?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geothermal energy is making a significant contribution to reducing carbon emissions and combating climate change. As a clean and sustainable source of energy, geothermal power plays a crucial role in Kenya&rsquo;s efforts to achieve a zero-carbon future. By harnessing the Earth&rsquo;s natural heat, geothermal energy helps to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, thus lowering greenhouse gas emissions. This makes geothermal energy a key component in an equitable transition to a sustainable and resilient energy future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geothermal energy is making a significant contribution to reducing carbon emissions and combating climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[143,53,100],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gdc-team","tag-gdcteam","tag-geothermal","tag-geothermal-development-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}