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New EU Energy Goals Are Just What Trump Aims to Avoid
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603006/new-eu-energy-goals-are-just-what-trump-aims-to-avoid/[font face=Serif][font size=5]New EU Energy Goals Are Just What Trump Aims to Avoid[/font]
[font size=4]Using 30 percent less energy and scrapping coal subsidies are a far cry from America’s likely future environmental policies.[/font]
by Jamie Condliffe | November 30, 2016
[font size=3]The European Union has announced an ambitious new set of goals that it hopes will help it meet the targets of the Paris climate agreement.
With the climate pact now in effect, nations are working out how to keep their promise: to reduce emission enough to limit average global temperature rises to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels. The EU’s goals fill a hefty 1,000 pages, according to the Guardian.
But the newspaper points out two headline ambitions for the Union: cut coal subsidies and reduce energy use by 30 percent by 2030. Elsewhere, it also plans to encourage the use of renewables and place limits on the use of bioenergies that are deemed unsustainable.
Those are ambitious aims, to be sure. But even so, they may yet prove insufficient. A recent UN report (PDF) warned that the emissions pledges being proposed by most countries don’t go far enough, suggesting that they would actually put the world on track to warm by 3.4 °C by 2100.
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[font size=4]Using 30 percent less energy and scrapping coal subsidies are a far cry from America’s likely future environmental policies.[/font]
by Jamie Condliffe | November 30, 2016
[font size=3]The European Union has announced an ambitious new set of goals that it hopes will help it meet the targets of the Paris climate agreement.
With the climate pact now in effect, nations are working out how to keep their promise: to reduce emission enough to limit average global temperature rises to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels. The EU’s goals fill a hefty 1,000 pages, according to the Guardian.
But the newspaper points out two headline ambitions for the Union: cut coal subsidies and reduce energy use by 30 percent by 2030. Elsewhere, it also plans to encourage the use of renewables and place limits on the use of bioenergies that are deemed unsustainable.
Those are ambitious aims, to be sure. But even so, they may yet prove insufficient. A recent UN report (PDF) warned that the emissions pledges being proposed by most countries don’t go far enough, suggesting that they would actually put the world on track to warm by 3.4 °C by 2100.
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