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Europe Must Choose a Low-Carbon Future

Chris Huhne, Norbert Röttgen & Jean-Louis Borloo | July 16, 2010

The European Union should raise its emissions target from a 20 to a 30 percent reduction of the 1990 levels by the year 2020. ++ At the current set target, Europe puts itself at a competitive disadvantage behind China, Japan, and the US in attracting low-carbon investment. ++ The recession has reduced emissions, thereby lowering the cost of increasing this reduction target. ++ Acting now to get ahead in the low-carbon race will give European industries a head start. ++ “It is a policy for Europe’s future.”

Fri, Jul 16th 2010, 23:18

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It may be added that there are some claims in the Media that the utilization of biomass in heat generation is not only more cost effective but also results in 25% less emission of carbon gases.

The present volume of biomass utilization in heat generation has been projected to increase 10 folds in the next 10 years from 12 million tons to 100 million tons in the World in 2020.

These types of renewables, I suppose, may also assist EU to reach her goal presumably slow down the rate of Climate Change if it indeed depended on the gren house effect of carbon gases.

Fri, Jul 23rd 2010, 00:35

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Since everyone knows that these new commitments will be mostly ignored, why not set the emissions target at 100% reduction from 1990 levels? Why not 1000%? There is really no limit to the good that emissions targets can do; anyone calling for anything less than 10,000% reduction is probably in favor of genocide, and desires to nuke the moon.

There, I said it.

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