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Juggling With Eggs 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

This is what happens when a country is ruled by amoral short term thinking bean counters in the Treasury.

Any ‘unspent’ carbon emissions are phantom ie. Non-existent in the real world that requires us to reduce our emissions as fast as possible, not throw any progress into reverse.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/11/uk-carbon-targets-carryover-budget-climate-change-committee

Ministers consider making UK’s carbon targets easier to meet

Fears Climate Change Committee’s advice not to allow carryover from last carbon budget will be ignored

^{Fiona Harvey (The Guardian)}

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Pippin 1 year ago friendica

*sigh* The proper target should be zero (or negative) of course. Setting targets which aren't negative is only worth doing so they are more "realistic" and don't put people off having any hope of reaching them. If those "more realistic" targets are easy (or even possible) to meet, though, they are not low enough — they should be as low as possible without causing anyone to actually give up. We need anyone in control of carbon-emitting industries to be struggling as hard as we can make them to meet emission reduction targets, because we need emissions to go down as far as possible, as early as possible, continuously. (I know I'm preaching to the converted of course…)