www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/climate/g7-end-coal-fossil-fuels-climate-intl/index.html
G7 agrees to shut down coal plants by 2035, UK minister says, in climate breakthrough
Pesky Cumbria still playing dirty coal mine opening tricks...
Lets look at previous plans of the G7 countries:
The UK wants to phase out coal this year.
France originally planned coal phase out for 2023, but pushed it off to 2027
Italy likewise originally planned 2025 but moved to 2027.
Canada aims to end coal by 2030
Germany tries to exit coal by 2035, latest 2038 with the current coalition having set 2030 as the target.
The US doesn’t have a target, but it’s rapidly declining anyway.
Which only really leaves Japan
You just know the U.S. is going to walk back their commitment
If any of the G7 do walk it back it will be the US, but coal has been on the way out anyway here and many of the plants that do exist have near term retirement plans. It's certainly possible this will be adhered to.
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Nothing was frickin done yet and newspapers are already claiming it's a breakthrough?
Remind me in 10 years when they delay the decision because to them it was too friggin ambitious.
This is great. Hope they're not selling these equipments to other countries like mine or my country (Philippines) will have more coal plants in the near future 😥
But no mention of not exporting coal!! Canada set a record in 2023 of exporting19 million tonnes of coal and pats themselves on the back for converting coal power plants but fails to mention some are being converted to heavy oil!!! All smoke and mirrors. Taxing emissions without reducing emissions is meaningless. Eight Billion people are three hundred million too many and almost never mentioned by the Climate Campaigners! Wars haven't done it, epidemics, nope, pandemics, poisoned vaccines? nope, now its poisoning food and the air we breath but lets be lemmings and focus on CO2!!
Too little too late
Don’t fall into the new reactionary narrative!
It went from “climate change isn’t real” to “ climate change isn’t caused by humans” to “it’s too late to fix climate change” all to encourage the status quo.
We can fix climate change and it takes a lot of steps exactly like this
Give it a little scroll. It's called doomerism, not status quo.
By status quo I mean status quo for big energy companies and polluters
Also you think I haven’t been down the depths of doom scrolling lol?
Well, the boomers who refuse to admit it ever was or will be an issue to address don't say "too little" because there wasn't supposed to be any effort in the first place for them.
Every little helps though, right? However, with all the new ones being built around the world at the moment I can't see it having any impact
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The UK will probably do that this year or next anyway - which is even better!