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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Hoofdstraat
Net ene van Groen op de radio gehoord en de EU heeft beslist om de uitstoot te verlagen met 55% tegen 2030. Voor haar was dit veel te laag en moet het 65% zijn om het 'klimaat te redden'.
Nu begrijp ik Trump nog beter, hoe gaan ze dit doen zonder ons in constante lockdown te steken? 
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-ach...agen~baf63f6e/ |
Hoezo?
Bedoel je "stupid Trump"?
US green economy has 10 times more jobs than the fossil fuel industry
The green economy has grown so much in the US that it employs around 10 times as many people as the fossil fuel industry – despite the past decade’s oil and gas boom.
The fossil fuel sector, from coal mines to gas power plants, employed around 900,000 people in the US in 2015-16, government figures show. But Lucien Georgeson and Mark Maslin at University College London found that over the same period this was vastly outweighed by the green economy, which provided nearly 9.5 million jobs, or 4 per cent of the working age population. The pair defined the green economy broadly, covering everything from renewable energy to environmental consultancy.
Their analysis showed the green economy is worth $1.3 trillion, or about 7 per cent of US GDP.
The figures don’t cover the presidency of Donald Trump, who promised to protect coal mining jobs and exploit oil and gas resources. But Maslin says the figures show that Trump’s policy is economically misguided.
“The Trump administration with the ‘America first’ approach of ‘fossil fuels are good’, is stupid when it comes to economics.
Read more:
https://www.newscientist.com/article...#ixzz6sfkcKt51
Of op basis van wat er gehaald werd tussen 1990 en 2019? (met economische groei van ~ 60%)
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https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/...es/progress_en
2020 target
The EU is well on track to meet its 20% emissions reduction target for 2020.
Latest figures:
- EU greenhouse gas emissions were reduced by 24% between 1990 and 2019, while the economy grew by around 60% over the same period.
- From 2018 to 2019, emissions declined by 3.7%.
- The most significant decline was in sectors covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), in particular power plants. Emissions from stationary installations in all countries covered by the system fell sharply by 9.1% between 2018 and 2019.
- Emissions not covered by the ETS (such as emissions from non-ETS industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and waste) remained unchanged between 2018 and 2019. The year before, these emissions had seen a slight drop; however, overall, emissions from this aggregate of economic sectors have been stable for several years.
- CO2 emissions from international aviation continued to increase in 2019, rising by 3% compared to the previous year, continuing the increasing trend. Aviation emissions are covered by the ETS, but currently only for flights within the European Economic Area (EEA).
2030 target
The EU has put in place legislation to reduce emissions by at least 40% by 2030 – as part of the EU's 2030 climate and energy framework and current contribution to the Paris Agreement.
This includes:
- Revising the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS)
- National emissions targets for sectors outside the EU ETS and LULUCF (“effort sharing”)
- Integrating land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) into emissions reduction efforts
- Legislation on renewable energy, energy efficiency and Governance of the Energy Union and climate action.
- The effective implementation of national energy and climate plans as submitted to the Commission in 2019/2020 could lead to EU-27 greenhouse gas reductions of 41% in 2030 compared to 1990.
Projections indicate that, if current EU and national policies are fully implemented, EU-27 greenhouse gas emissions reductions by 2030 would be around 45% lower compared to 1990 levels when excluding land use emissions and absorptions, and around 47% lower when including land use.
The existing legislation will now be updated with a view to implementing the new proposed target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. The Commission will come forward with proposals by June 2021.
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