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Thursday 14 March 2024
NET ZERO IS DEAD
Yesterday I pointed out that the Prime Minister has at last realised that net zero would not be possible. In this article that same point I made has been made by Gordon Hughes writing in the Daily Telegraph. See below:
That video you found was high on talk about action, but did not actually show any results. At under 3 minutes it was at least short. Of course the whole net zero fad relies on keeping the belief that it is achievable going, and that will get harder and harder as progress starts to get further behind where the extremists think it should be. What we will get is more high level waffle.
What is the UK doing on net zero? To help achieve its 2050 target, the UK government has made a series of ambitious pledges, which include:
achieving fully "clean" electricity by 2035, by rapidly increasing wind, solar and nuclear power making 80% of new car sales "zero emission" by 2030 capturing and storing between 20 and 30 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030 installing 600,000 electric heat pumps a year by 2028. The UK has made significant cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions to date. These have fallen by nearly 50% since 1990.
Yes there are lots of pledges and, as you say, substantial cuts have been made, but that first 50% is the easy half. The rest will prove much harder. Fully "clean" electricity by 2035 looks unlikely as Rishi has said we need new gas-fired power stations to be built. (And he is quite right)
I have been reading it's around 80 to 90%. The beauty of that amount of achievment, we will be at a much lower amount of pollution giving us time to find the solutions for net zero to 100%.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52LWMv_84bo&t=38s
ReplyDeleteDead? There is some pretty high level stuff happening in your country.
That video you found was high on talk about action, but did not actually show any results. At under 3 minutes it was at least short. Of course the whole net zero fad relies on keeping the belief that it is achievable going, and that will get harder and harder as progress starts to get further behind where the extremists think it should be. What we will get is more high level waffle.
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DeleteNet Zero goals have extended but not dropped. I don't see Net Zero as dead in the least.
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What is the UK doing on net zero?
To help achieve its 2050 target, the UK government has made a series of ambitious pledges, which include:
achieving fully "clean" electricity by 2035, by rapidly increasing wind, solar and nuclear power
making 80% of new car sales "zero emission" by 2030
capturing and storing between 20 and 30 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030
installing 600,000 electric heat pumps a year by 2028.
The UK has made significant cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions to date. These have fallen by nearly 50% since 1990.
Yes there are lots of pledges and, as you say, substantial cuts have been made, but that first 50% is the easy half. The rest will prove much harder. Fully "clean" electricity by 2035 looks unlikely as Rishi has said we need new gas-fired power stations to be built. (And he is quite right)
DeleteI have been reading it's around 80 to 90%. The beauty of that amount of achievment, we will be at a much lower amount of pollution giving us time to find the solutions for net zero to 100%.
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