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Electric, hybrid and low-emission cars
‘It’s an insult’: drivers react to Rishi Sunak’s electric car U-turn
Many feel decision to delay ban of petrol and diesel cars flies in face of environment and industry alike, while some see it as pragmatism
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/21/drivers-rishi-sunak-electric-car-u-turn
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One leading European politician said Sunak was turning the UK into “a climate villain and destroying its international reputation as a climate leader.”
Campaigners including Friends of the Earth and The Good Law Project are now assessing how they can stop a rollback that would allow new petrol and diesel cars, and gas boilers, to be sold for longer.
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UK firefighters go to Spain for wildfire training as number of blazes surges
Exclusive: wildfires, once rare in the UK, more than doubled last year to nearly 24,000 with devastating effects on wildlife habitats
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Glasgow EnerPHit trial led to 'astounding' drop in bills
A block of draughty tenements in Glasgow's south side are now among Scotland's warmest and most energy-efficient homes following a first-of-its-kind project.
Eight rundown one-bedroomed properties were acquired from private landlords through compulsory purchase laws and stripped back to their bare bones to allow construction workers to put in place "21st-century energy efficiency solutions".
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Exclusive:Green minister Patrick Harvie claims heat pump critics including Fergus Ewing acting on behalf of natural gas vested interests
The letter over heat pumps was also co-signed by Labour and Conservative MSPs
A veteran SNP parliamentarian and serial rebel has been accused of acting on behalf of major energy companies when he criticised the Scottish Government’s plans to replace fossil fuel burners with heat pumps.
Patrick Harvie, the Scottish Green minister for zero carbon buildings, attacked Fergus Ewing’s intervention in his response to a letter received in August. It is the latest in a series of alternating attacks between the Scottish Greens and Mr Ewing, who is a fierce critic of the power-sharing deal between the SNP and Scottish Greens and has repeatedly called for them to be thrown out of government.
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Think it's about time Fergus Ewing was the one who gets thrown out, he's literally just Old Man Shouting At Clouds MSP. If not for his mother's name he'd have had the boot a long time ago I suspect.
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Two-thirds of people do not trust Tories on environment, poll finds
Two-thirds of people say they do not trust the Conservatives to make the right decisions on the environment, a poll had found.
The Ipsos poll was carried out between 20 and 21 September after the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, announced changes to his climate policies.
Those polled, however, were almost evenly split on whether they thought Sunak had made the right decision to make these changes, with 47% saying he had and 46% saying he hadn’t. Among 2019 Conservative voters, only 25% said Sunak had got it wrong.
It also found that 48% of those polled said they were now less confident the UK would meet its targets, including reaching net zero by 2050, while 13% said they were more confident.
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Rishi Sunak’s decision to drive a “green wedge” between the Conservatives and Labour will take the UK into dangerous new political territory and “the worst kind of culture wars”, not seen for more than 30 years, senior Tory figures and political observers have warned.
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Rishi Sunak scraps home energy efficiency taskforce
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But Birol also noted that greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector were “still stubbornly high”, and that the extreme weather seen around the world this year had shown the climate was already changing “at frightening speed”.
The IEA, in a report entitled Net Zero Roadmap, published on Tuesday morning, also called on developed countries with 2050 net zero targets, including the UK, to bring them forward by several years.
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Our new report out today, So, what do we want from food? Citizens are hungry for change shows the UK public overwhelmingly back state intervention to improve the food system. Citizens see that food is at the crux of many of the issues facing us today. They want government to make sensible policy decisions that protect people and planet, and they want powerful food businesses to be more accountable.
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https://ffcc.co.uk/news-and-press/citizens-are-hungry-for-change
North Sea Transition Authority say it's fine.
This is not very convincing blurb from Norwegian owned group developing. How could NSTA be swayed by this? Could it be that this limited company registered in England but HQd in Aberdeen is not really independent? (!)
We’re going for net zero, but what does that really mean?Society has to move faster towards a net-zero future, so ‘business as usual’ is no longer an option. Climate change presents a fundamental challenge to society, and it is a shared challenged in which we believe our industry can play an important role. Equinor intends to be a leading company in the energy transition.
Here’s how we will achieve our climate ambitions:
Equinor’s Energy Transition Plan
In March 2022, we launched our first Energy Transition Plan, demonstrating how we will achieve ambitious climate targets with concrete actions. It was endorsed by our shareholders at our annual general meeting in 2022.
Major changes must happen even before 2030, so our plan puts particular emphasis on initiatives in this decade.
By 2030, our plan is to:
• Halve emissions from our operated fields
• Invest more than 50% in renewables and low-carbon markets
• Reduce net carbon intensity by 20%, including emissions from the use of the products we sellReducing emissions
We aim to remain an industry leader in carbon efficiency
We know that our emissions must be reduced, and it starts with us and how we work with suppliers and partners. It’s about how we make our work more efficient, how we replace gas turbines with electric power, or how we use drones in tracking our methane emissions.
We are assessing numerous large and small initiatives across our company that will reduce emissions daily.Remaining emissions will be compensated either through quota trading systems, such as EU ETS, or high-quality offset mechanisms. In addition, we plan to invest in the protection of tropical forests as soon as a well-functioning market is in place for the private sector.*
Electrification of platforms
Reducing methane emissions etc
* More tax breaks!? Trees are burning every day so better not hang around!
In March 2022, we launched our first Energy Transition Plan
Your first plan was written only last year? Better late than never, I suppose.
Halve emissions from our operated fields
Greenwashing. Honourable target but insignificant compared with the emissions from the use of the product.
Reduce net carbon intensity by 20%, including emissions from the use of the products we sell
Only 20%? By 2030? Come off it. And saying 'net' is elegant wordsmithing and we know what you're up to. 'Net' is the result of adding up your emissions and then subtracting those emissions that are removed through absorption or sequestration - including offsetting schemes. Saying 'net' is a licence to carry on business and usual and paying the relatively paltry sum for the privilege.
We know that our emissions must be reduced
Greenwashing. Honourable aspiration but insignificant compared with the emissions from the use of the product.
high-quality offset mechanisms
90% of offsetting schemes are junk and not worth the paper they are written on. Offsetting schemes involving reforestation are already being destroyed by wildfires.
as soon as a well-functioning market is in place for the private sector.
This is PhD-level greenwashing and achieves absolutely nothing in the short or medium term.
We know that our emissions must be reduced
No mate. We know that emissions need to be STOPPED ENTIRELY.
FTFY
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/09/25/gordon-brown-saves-the-world/
So just to run that by you again, we won’t do anything to alter the nature of the economy that is driving us into destruction, we’ll just ask nicely the most filthy-rich beneficiaries of that system if they’d mind giving us a trillion dollars to help out with the consequences of their product?Brown himself admits that since Bretton Woods in 1944: “With the notable exception of paying for UN peacekeeping, no one then or since has ever agreed how the costs of funding global public goods would be shared.”
So there is no vehicle or precedent (or motivation) for the proposals. Gordon Brown is as likely to succeed in this as he was in “Abolishing the House of Lords” or “Creating Federalism in Britain”.
He is the $1 Trillion Dollar Man …
Promise not to post more Bella tonight! Not been on for a while as your browser security is checked over by them.
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/09/28/rosebank-omnicide-for-the-people/
As trade unionist and activist Howard Becket put it: “Equinor, Norway’s state-owned oil company gets taxed at 78% for extracting fossil fuels in Norways waters. To extract fossil fuels off the Shetland’s* Sunak is giving them a 91% tax break. We are paying foreign state owned companies to destroy the planet. You couldn’t make it up.”[Equinor made £62 BILLION in profits last year.]
*Should just be Shetland
Is there an issue with abbreviating “the Shetland Islands” to “the Shetlands”?
@neddie - I'll let Tom Morton answer this (!)
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Agree or disagree with the govt position on net zero, but it is plainly wrong of PM to say that “all modelling suggests we will meet our targets regardless”
The truth is that we are off track to deliver on our targets and do not have the practical plans in place to change this.
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Carried out by pollsters Opinium, the survey found that 82% of all respondents backed the growth of Britain’s green industry to boost the economy
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I’m really surprised that the idea of “green industry“ has got through so strongly.
It will be interesting to see how/if the Tories react.
Their ideas seem to go little further than carbon capture - questionably green and uncertain if it will work on any useful scale and ‘but hydrogen’ - which seems to involve more questions than answers…
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Report claiming net zero will cost UK trillions retracted due to ‘factual errors’
Rightwing thinktank Civitas mistakenly cost onshore wind power 10,000 times higher than reality and claimed bill would be £4.5tn
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Sunak cites net zero as an example of how he has been willing to make necessary changes.
He looked at the costs, and concluded the current approach was not right.
He took a pragmatic approach, he says.
And he says he won’t take lectures from countries doing less than the UK, or people who can easily afford to spend thousands.
He describes this as “good, conservative common sense”.
He will “tell it as it is, and lead in a different way”, he says.
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Sunak says he wants to increase smoking age by one year every year.
So if he can do that kind of "nanny-state-ism", he can also increase the driving age by one year every year. That way we can eliminate health issues caused by inactivity as well.
Driving is the new smoking
Unlike other products, there is no safe level ofsmokingdriving
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