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As comparison, the UK target is a cut of 68% by 2030.
by agd 6y ago
As comparison, the UK target is a cut of 68% by 2030.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoIt's difficult to compare, the UK had a lot of dirty coal power stations in 1990 whereas France was mostly nuclear. We had some low hanging fruit to pick and started doing so for cost reasons more than anything else.
- agd 6y agoTrue, but Germany has a lot of coal.
- lucioperca 6y agoGermany is really a shame, they build a lot of coal plants because of the phase out of nuclear. Mean while a lot of NIMBY laws and protest is stopping onshore wind.
- bildung 6y agoThat is technically true but misleading because a) all of those plants were planned before the nuclear exit and b) they all close in 2038. Still a shame, though.
- greatpatton 6y agook fine but in 2020 63% of Germany electricity production is carbon neutral (renewable + nuclear), and this is increasing every year. https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...
- lucioperca 6y agoBut there will be no nuclear after 2022 which will hinder the progress, meanwhile this; https://www.powermag.com/germany-brings-last-new-coal-plant-online/ https://www.powermag.com/germany-brings-last-new-coal-plant-...
- Entalpi 6y agoAh, yes. But Germany isnt the 26 other countries in th eEU. Poland on the other hand has a ton of coal.
- dane-pgp 6y ago> a ton of coal At least.
- mFixman 6y agoPoland and most EU countries in Eastern Europe are using more coal than ever. You can make an incredible reduction by changing those coal plants to oil or natural gas.
- petr_tik 6y agoNot really a level playing field, is it? The EU are obviously trying to get a competitive advantage over the U.K. with such a low target
- dane-pgp 6y agoIf only the UK had had some way of influencing the EU's policies.
- dustinmoris 6y agoThis is quite ironic, the EU sets its own standards lower than the UK, but in trade negotiations accuses the UK of potentially lowering the standards to get an advantage. Same stories with subsidies. I guess it's true, cheaters are always the most afraid of being cheated.
- sveme 6y agoBojo has already stated that they aim to lower their standards to better compete with the EU, so totally understandable that the EU doesn't just believe him.
- greatpatton 6y agoGiven that UK is not able to keep its word for more than a year (internal market clause), it is sensible for EU to not trust whatever promise the current PM is making.
- M2Ys4U 6y agoIt's almost as if the word "standards" covers a whole host of things in a very, very wide array of policy areas.
- DrBazza 6y agoThe UK seems peculiarly obsessed with wind power. And a few times last month, it was (unusually?) wind-less and the wind power contribution to the national grid dropped to almost zero, whilst at the same time...fossil fuel and nuclear had to pick up the slack.
- pjc50 6y agoThe UK position on this is very odd: we've been quite effective, but nobody wants to take credit for it in public.