Letter to the PM outlining how 2°C demands an 80% cut in EU emissions by 2030
A pdf is available at: Letter to the PM & DECC about the EU’s emission target.
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Open Letter to:
The Prime Minister and Secretary of State at the Department of Energy & Climate Change
22nd October 2014
RE: The EU 2030 decarbonisation target and the framework for climate and energy policies
Dear Prime Minister and Secretary of State,
I wish to state my grave concern about the proposed ‘2030 framework for climate and energy policies’ that is to be finalised at this week’s European Council meeting of heads of state and senior ministers. If the 40% target proposed in the earlier Green Paper [1] is adopted, the EU will be signalling its dismissal of the IPCC’s carbon budgets associated with a 2°C rise in global temperature. It will give priority to politically expediency at the expense of scientific integrity, irrevocably damaging the climate change negotiations in Paris 2015.
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