{"id":67878,"date":"2024-05-05T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67878"},"modified":"2024-05-05T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T16:30:46","slug":"europe-scraps-net-zero-biden-should-but-wont-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67878","title":{"rendered":"Europe Scraps Net Zero, Biden Should But Won\u2019t, Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Europe Scraps Net Zero, Biden Should But Won\u2019t, Why?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cUnaffordable climate commitments have two leftist British parties racing to exit stage left.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Europeans Ditch Net Zero<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal reports\u00a0Europeans Ditch Net Zero, While Biden Clings to It<\/a><\/p>\n

You know you\u2019ve stumbled through the looking glass when European politicians start sounding saner on climate policy than the Americans do. Well here we are, Alice: Europeans are admitting the folly of net zero quicker than their American peers.<\/p>\n

The latest example\u2014perhaps \u201cvictim\u201d is more apt\u2014is Humza Yousaf, who resigned this week as Scotland\u2019s first minister. That region within the U.K. enjoys substantial devolved powers over its own affairs, including on climate policy. An administration led by Mr. Yousaf\u2019s left-leaning Scottish National Party had hoped to rush ahead of the national government in London in slashing carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

Until, that is, someone noticed the costs. A recent report from the U.K.\u2019s Climate Change Committee noted Scotland had fallen far behind on its climate goals. The government aimed to reduce by 20% the aggregate distance driven by Scottish motorists, compared with 2019 levels, but had no plan to accomplish the reduction in personal mobility by the 2030 deadline. To get back on track with the government\u2019s goal of a transition to home electric heat pumps, Scotland would have to replace natural-gas fire boilers at a rate of more than 80,000 households a year by the end of the decade. That\u2019s a big ask considering that in 2023 it managed 6,000 boiler replacements. The government resisted imposing an aviation tax to discourage excess flying. And so on.<\/p>\n

Mr. Yousaf did the only thing he could under the circumstances: He all but abandoned net zero. His administration announced it is ditching firm annual emission-reduction targets in favor of fuzzier \u201ccarbon budgets.\u201d…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Europe Scraps Net Zero, Biden Should But Won\u2019t, Why? \u201cUnaffordable climate commitments have two leftist British parties racing to exit stage left.\u201d Europeans Ditch Net Zero The Wall Street Journal reports\u00a0Europeans Ditch Net Zero, While Biden Clings to It You know you\u2019ve stumbled through the looking glass when European politicians start sounding saner on climate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[281,14648,13390,30673,33927,827,834],"class_list":["post-67878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-europe","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-net-zero","tag-non-renewable-renewable-energy-harvesting-technology","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67879,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67878\/revisions\/67879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}