European carmakers have openly questioned the EU’s 2021 car emissions goals, rejecting tougher reduction targets planned for 2030.
They claim the bloc’s climate targets and its push toward more e-cars will cost jobs.
Car fleet emissions in Europe have started to rise again, as more and more buyers are worried about likely diesel car bans in European cities. —Deutsche Welle, 5 September 2018
German news agency DPA is reporting that hundreds of police have entered a forest that protesters are trying to stop from being chopped down for a coal mine. The agency reported that police are protecting workers from energy company RWE who plan to start clearing obstacles from the floor of Hambach forest Wednesday. RWE wants to cut down half of the ancient forest to expand a nearby lignite strip mine. —Reuters, 5 September 2018
After the United Nations’s first attempt to build a global carbon market fizzled from $33 billion to almost nothing, climate envoys from nearly 200 countries are meeting in Bangkok this week to give it another go. Initially backed by the U.S., the CDM gave markets a central role to play in slashing emissions by handing an incentive for rich countries to pay for projects to lower emissions in developing ones. China was the biggest beneficiary. —Bloomberg, 5 September 2018
Many environmentalists fail to grasp that the real problem isn’t skepticism that the climate is changing, or even that human activity is a leading cause of the change. Millions worry about climate change and believe human activity is in large part responsible. But they do not believe that the climate movement has the answers to the problems it describes. Green policy blunders, like support for ethanol in the U.S. and knee-jerk opposition to nuclear power, erode confidence that environmental activists—who too often have anti-capitalists, Malthusian and technophobic view of the world—can be trusted, to as they often say, to “save the planet.” – Walter Russell Mead, The Wall Street Journal, 4 September 2018
French environment campaigners have warned Emmanuel Macron is doing too little to combat climate change and must radically rethink his environment policy if he is to honor his promise to “make this planet great again”. —The Guardian, 4 September 2018
Save both the planet and human beings. Get rid of the Environmentalists.
I fail to understand why these car makers do not challenge the claim that CO2 emissions must be reduced.
There is no empirical proof that CO2 causes global warming, hence climate change.
Reducing emissions is a total waste of time and money.
Emissions should be allowed to increase to increase crop yields and more greening of the planet.