It looks as if most European countries intend to learn the hard way that industrial economies can’t run successfully on expensive and intermittent electricity supplies. If their governments are happy to de-industrialise they should say so, then voters working in power-hungry industries would know the score. The price of climate superstition could be high for a lot of people.
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Spain has announced it is seeking to pass a new climate law to ensure it can cut its emissions to net zero by 2050, reports Energy Live News.
The draft law proposals would ban all new coal, oil and gas projects with immediate effect in order to rapidly reduce Spain’s greenhouse gas emissions by a fifth before 2030, relative to 1990 levels, as well as increase the renewable share of the country’s energy mix from around 50% to 70% by this time.
They would also ban all new vehicles that produce carbon emissions by 2040, support the expansion of electric vehicle charging point infrastructure, introduce urban low-emission zones, bolster biodiversity efforts, set clean fuel goals and ban new fossil fuel exploration.
Full report here.
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Related: New Paper: Decarbonisation Plans Fail Engineering Reality Check – Press Release, Global Warming Policy Foundation
Net Zero target is ‘madness’ – Prof. Michael Kelly
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May 19, 2020 at 09:36AM
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