The European Parliament has formally set a goal to make the entire European Union carbon neutral by 2050.
Members of the European Parliament passed the Climate Act on Thursday in a vote of 442 for, 203 against, and 51 abstentions.
The Act also increased the EU’s goal to reduce carbon emissions from 44 percent of 1990 levels to 55 percent by 2030.
Swedish Social Democrat MEP Jytte Guteland said, according to SVT: “It’s a real boost compared to today’s level. I see that it will only play a bigger and bigger role for Europe and the world.”
Swedish MEP Emma Wiesner, a member of the Centre Party, said that she was concerned that the package did not go far enough.
“I expect an unprecedented climate package. The only thing I worry about is that it will not be ambitious enough, but the goals are a good starting point,” she said.
According to SVT, the European Commission presented a draft of the climate law last spring and set a binding target of becoming climate neutral by 2050.
Initially, the European Parliament wanted to decrease emissions by 60 percent compared to 1990 levels by 2030 but settled for 55 percent.
Conservative and populist MEPs were largely against the proposal, with Polish Law and Justice (PiS) MEP Anna Zalewska stating: “The adopted document is disappointing. There is no money for it currently. Without proper financing, it will not be possible to achieve a just transformation.”
“The climate law has orders and bans and will not only result in new taxes, but also in an increase in the cost of everyday life,” Ms. Zalewska added.
Sweden, the home of noted climate change activist Greta Thunberg, is one of the countries in the European Union that has pushed most for reducing emissions and has considered banning the sale of new cars that use fossil fuels by the end of the decade.
Despite Sweden’s push to combat climate change, Swedes in 2019 voted climate change spending as the biggest waste of taxpayer money.
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Some IPCC members would like to say something … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36cyEt5JfRA
Since carbon is the basic building block of life forms, plant and animal, “zero carbon” would mean the end of life. Also since the world oceans contain vast stores of CO2, and biodecay on land also releases it, maybe “net Zero” carbon might prove a little more problematic than they imagine. Also, the inability of the EU Brussels bureaucrats to attain anything much of any use, except virtue signalling. Net zero from Brussels hot air would be amore useful goal.
Watch as Europe reverts back to the Dark ages just to prevent a totaly fake crisis of Global Warming/Climate Change
If a western Net Zero is achieved, will we then conveniently find that our mission to stop the planet from warming catastrophically (and quite falsely) has succeeded? Or will the goal-post shifting keep on going?
Net-Zero is a double 00 on Intelligence but 100% on Politics
Except that Global Warming is a Global issue that that has to do with Global emissions with no opportunity for the EU to to attenuate Global warming with interventions in EU emissions.
Please see
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/02/23/renewable-energy-statistics/