🆕 Cost-effective #climate #mitigation would reduce fossil fuel consumption in the EU by around 90 percent by 2050, compared to 2020. Rapid expansion of renewable energy and widespread electrification are key drivers of this shift, researchers show. ⬇️
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/eu-climate-target-could-cut-fossil-fuel-use-by-90-per-cent

#NetZero2050

On 26th Oct 2021, Australian PM Scott "don't-be-scared-of-coal" Morrison announced the Coalition's #NetZero2050 #ClimateTarget.

That same day, I read the document containing Morrison's 'plan'. It contained nothing to get Australia anywhere near the (already compromised idea of) #NetZero.

There was no plan, no modelling, no change in actual policies. The #ScottMorrison 'commitment' to net zero was still completely consistent with decades of #Coalhugger #Coalition policies. The target was toothless, an exercise in getting a headline to quiet the conscience of the news-skimming voter whose grandkids keep telling them climate is bad but who really wants to vote for hurting marginalised people and/or retaining their current tax loopholes (and who hasn't realised how much the #ALP embraces both anyway).

So with this week's news that #SussanLey has dropped that pretence, at least now there is one iota less dishonesty in Australian politics (albeit one with its own new lies and contradictions).

The last time the Coalition's #ClimatePolicy slightly departed from utter loyalty to the #DirtyEnergy industry was the morning of the 1st Dec 2009 in the hours before #MalcolmTurnbull was deposed as leader of her Majesty's Opposition and replaced by #TonyAbbott by a single vote.

#Auspol #ClimateWars #LNP

#happyearthday 2025! 😀

This day reminds us of the work we are doing for your businesses and also our planet. Our solutions are reducing energy usage and emissions everyday, taking our customers that step towards a sustainable future and the UK net zero goals.

#earthday #sustainability #netzero #manufacturing #carbonemissions #energy #uk #netzero2050

This looks worth bookmarking:
https://www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/4411018/kemi-badenoch-wrong-net-zero-2050-difficult-impossible
Badenoch's "central claim that reaching net zero emissions by 2050 is "impossible" is technically false, scientifically flawed, politically counter-productive, and economically damaging ...
Badenoch went on to explain that "anyone who has done any serious analysis knows it can't be achieved without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting us".
But this is not true either. There are literally thousands of pages of hugely detailed analysis showing how net zero could be reached without undermining living standards or imposing excessive costs on the economy."

And, of course, just think how living standards are being increasingly impacted by floods, excessive heat, subsidence, drought, food shortages ... Pursuing #netzero2050 is the cheaper option in the medium to long term.
#climateChaos #economics #UKpolitics

#EtihadRail officially announced a high-speed train line connecting #AbuDhabi and #Dubai. Once completed, the travel time will be reduced to 30 minutes between the two cities at speeds up to 350 km/h. The project is part of the country's #NetZero2050 strategy.

The state-owned railway company also unveiled its first passenger train fleet designed to operate at speeds up to 200 km/h.

#RailwaySunday #Asia #MiddleEast #UAE #UnitedArabEmirates #railway #trains #climate

BBC enquires whether aviation can be net zero by 2050 and what the ‘price’ for holidaymakers will be.

And writes an essay verging on greenwash. Let me summarise:

1. No. Don’t make me laugh. Nothing about aviation is, or will be, sustainable. Most of what the industry is doing is technical greenwash.

2. A liveable planet. Forget carbon taxes and other sham disincentives. We need to stop flying.

#aviation #netzero2050 #greenwashing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c245e726r79o

Finally, an honest government ad about climate change and how we can reach Net Zero in 2050.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1FqXTCvDLeo

#ClimateChange #netZero2050 #COPout