Hi, Diane, on my mind, the path to net zero emissions, the annual United Nations Climate Conference begins in Dubai this week, a big topic

on people's minds. How countries are doing, making pledges to slash production of greenhouse gases.

And the general consensus is not great.

Today, we look at one part of the effort to reduce emissions here in the

U.S. That's transformation of fossil fuel- powered machines we use to eat our homes, cook food, and try to work.

Experts agree households will have to embrace new low carbon options to achieve

President Biden's goal, a net zero emissions by 2050.

Michael Corin, the Washington Post joins me

to explain what those options are

and barriers to widespread adoption.

Mike, in your column you write that in order for the U. meet zero emissions by 2050,

most households will need to embrace

a suite of new green technologies.

Tell me what those would be.

Yeah, absolutely.

So over the next 30 years or so,

we're going to need to decarbonize a lot of the economy and some big pieces of that are going to be our

homes. And there's only a few things that really require a lot of energy or emit a lot of emissions. And so we're looking at

heat pumps. That tends to be your heater or

your air conditioner electric vehicles so your transportation solar panels so

this is sort of you know where we're getting our energy from and then cooking and water

heating. So those are those are the big ones that once you do once you turn those

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