EU Lagging Behind In GHG Cuts
By Paul Homewood
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/t2020_30/default/table?lang=en
In its INDC at Paris, the EU pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% of 1990 levels by 2030. The UK signed up to the same target as part of the EU at the time.
Yet the EU’s progress has not been shared equally – far from it. The UK has already cut emissions by 38%, and the Fifth Carbon Budget legally requires a cut of 57% by 2030.
The EU27 average cut is only 20%, with many countries such as France, Netherlands, Italy and Belgium performing much worse. Incredibly we find that Spain, Ireland, and Austria have actually increased emissions since 1990. Even the much vaunted Germany has only managed a cut of 29%.
Instead of trying to destroy jobs in Cumbria, maybe Roger Harrabin and the demented Ed Miliband might care to turn their attention to their beloved EU.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
And how does our cost of electricity compared with that in the EU?
Has the UK really made any cuts in carbon emissions if one takes into account those produced by countries where our industries were transferred to and where the production is shipped back to the UK?
Exactly!
I saw an article recently (forgot to tag it) which claimed that, when “imported” carbon is taken into account, our total emissions are virtually the same as 1990.
….and don’t forget the very real emissions from biofuels, especially the Drax process. If “carbon accounting” was carried out rigorously and fairly, a quite different graph might well emerge.
No, … they don’t take account of embedded CO2 outside of our borders.
It’s creative accountancy.
Harrabin and the rest of the Green Blob are only interested in virtue signalling and making life miserable for ordinary people. Meanwhile China and India live in the real world.
Yes, and the moaners soon forgot that Germany opened a massive coal plant last year. Far bigger than the Cumbria one would be.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-27/controversial-german-coal-fired-power-plant-to-start-this-week
I was wondering if there was a sensible country left on the planet. Go,Turkey!
Paul,
You are looking for logic when it is obvious that there is none.
I commented on another blog about the US election (ok, I know. Stay with me) and mentioned that the Dems still had to take into account the 75M voters against Biden. To paraphrase, the comment I got back was along the lines of, let them suck it up.
I kind of feel that way about carbon targets and the virtue-signalling about who can reduce ‘carbon’ the most. It doesn’t matter.
Yep, I light fires and burn rubbish all i can. Release the beautiful life giving CO2.
Net Zero COVID, Net Zero Carbon, Net Zero Jobs, Net Zero Tax Income, Net Zero Brains
After -22.9C at Braemar (some way off the -27.2C recorded 3 times), Scotland has a wildfire problem!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-56022387
Expecting France to reduce it’s emissions it a bit unrealistic considering their percentage of Nuclear zero CO2 generation.
Germany only achieved it’s reduction by closing old East German Industries and generation..