In the UK, mandatory whole life carbon emissions accounting is constantly delayed. But they have drastically improved their electrical grid and from 2025 they will finally start building new buildings that no longer require retrofitting later to meet future decarbonisation targets.
Really useful set of figures for anyone trying to understand patterns in transport decarbonisation...
As with so many anti-Brexit marches. Instead, people see oil and gas lobbyists all over party conferences and invited to policy meetings. We need a national and inclusive debate on decarbonisation and future policy.
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Often think about this from the perspective of the role AVs may play in decarbonisation. It is clear they are a distraction when thinking about 2030/2035 climate targets but do need to think about the role they might play in 2050. Here's a good report by the Connected Places Catapult on this issue
Bonus points for the mention of shipping decarbonisation too, which is almost always ignored (though UK shouldn't wait for an international deal that might never happen and should act unilaterally now, as the EU has).
As the new EU Commission prepares for its term, key portfolios on #ClimateAction#Decarbonisationwww.e3g.org/publications...
Commission President Von der Leyen has placed the continuation of climate action into dedicated hands and shared political ownership. Mission letters to the Commissioners-designate signal that the Eur...
There's a lot you could say about the wider context for each of these sectors - agreed! I'd still say that transport (our largest emitting sector) is on far too slow a path of emission reductions and the Transport Decarbonisation Plan failed to put in place the policies needed to hit 2030 targets
Hallituksen #vihreäsiirtymä ja kansainvälistymisvastainen vientivetoisuusideologia saa lisää vettä niskaansa: “Structural *adjustments to decarbonisation, digitisation, demographic change and stronger international competition* are casting a shadow over Germany’s long-term economic prospects,”
Structural problems mean the country will struggle to return to pre-pandemic rates of economic expansion, say leading institutes