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Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com)
Sweden is the first country to significantly upgrade its carbon ambitions since the Paris accord in 2015. The country has passed a new bill committing to cut its net carbon emissions to zero by 2045. New Scientist reports: The law was drawn up by a cross-party committee and passed with an overwhelming majority in parliament by 254 votes to 41. The legislation establishes an independent Climate Policy Council and requires an action plan to be updated every four years. Sweden had previously committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2050. It already gets 83 per cent of its electricity from nuclear energy and hydropower, having met its 2020 target of 50 per cent renewable energy eight years ahead of schedule. To achieve carbon-neutral status, the country will focus on reducing emissions from transport by increasing the use of biofuels and electric vehicles. It plans to cut domestic emissions by at least 85 per cent, and offset remaining emissions by planting trees or investing in projects abroad.
Aaaand in the meantime, my country is trying it's darndest (under the current administration and GOP leadership) to move back to coal.
Woohoo!
It's more like California, if you removed every large town and every city except for LA. 90% of Sweden's population is in the southern third of the state, and the rest has small community and farms in the northern area, mostly along the coast.
https://www.researchgate.net/p...
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
You mean the election in a district where the GOP is down 60,000 votes from November? I'd take that swing nationwide any day of the week. That kind of hit would be crippling even if the Supreme Court does nothing about the partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Wait till Trumpcare fails. There's a reason they won't even tell their own Senators what is in it.
Sweden produces no oil, but does "make crap tons of money with fossil fuels".
Sweden is a net exporter of refined oil products to the tune of 378,000 barrels every day. The oil comes in, is refined, some stays and the rest is sold for quite high profits.
We don't export oil--that'd be the Norwegians. We do export refined petroleum products, but the oil comes from elsewhere.
But that doesn't fear-monger nearly as well, does it?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
What? Sweden is not and has never been part of NATO, you can't just make up facts.
Sweden has military cooperation with many countries and has participated in many UN mission together with NATO countries, and occasionally has been under NATO command as well.
But before relations deteriorated with Russia there were cooperation with them as well. Joint exercises etc.
Bit of a stretch for you to call it thinking. Racism is more of a reflex.
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Bzzzzzzzzzt--WRONG.
Sweden is most definitely NOT a member of NATO. It is, however, an EU member state:
After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995, but declined NATO membership, as well as Eurozone membership following a referendum. It is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Perhaps you're thinking of Norway, which is a member of NATO but isn't part of the EU?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
It would help relations considerably if they were better about not letting their subs get spotted nosing around Stockholm Harbour.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
You should come up here and check out the quality of the environment. Then we can talk about what's "green".
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
results from all the oil that we export, which is our number one source of revenue for our economy
What makes you say that? Your own link puts imports of refined petroleum at $4.83B, with exports at $7.22B, for total net exports of $2.84B.
2% of the economy is serious, but that figure is dwarfed by Packaged Medicaments ($6.22B), Cars ($5.85B), Vehicle Parts ($4.76B) and Telephones ($3.99B) - hardly the number one source of revenue.
Frankly, I'm surprised armaments isn't on the list. (perhaps hidden in vehicle parts?) I always the Swedish Socialist Utopia was pay for by profits from selling guns for poor people to kill each other with.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
This page is created by the company that runs the swedish powergrid
http://www.svk.se/drift-av-stamnatet/kontrollrummet/
At the botton you can se live data on the types of energy produced in sweden
Kärnkraft = Nuclear
Värmekraft = Heat power (burning wood and the like)
Ospecificerat = Undefined, for instance oil or electricity pushed back to the grid when trains uses the breaks.
Vindkraft = wind
Vattenkraft = Hydro
The map above (of the entire nordics and baltic area) show how electicity is transported and what the price are in different regions.
To be fair - the Swedish Empire was, at the time the largest empire in Europe.
Then again that was during the thirty-years war some 300-odd years ago. It's not been anything like that size since the end of the reformation wars. And even at the height of the Swedish Empire - it ruled only about half of Europe - which is a far cry from all of Eurasia, and it never depopulated the place (at least, not any more than the wars did anyway).
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They are, in fact, significantly ahead of schedule already. I know we don't usually read the articles here, but at least read the summary ?
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Animals and people are already carbon neutral.
You can't breath our more CO2 than the carbon you've consumed, from plants can not have more carbon than they have previously removed from the atmosphere.
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No, the coal jobs are being lost to cheap gas - which right now is reducing US carbon output, Paris or no Paris.
"Reducing"? Not really. Slowing the growth would be more accurate. Natural gas is still a fossil fuel and overall demand is still growing. Emissions remain far higher than is likely to be a good idea. The US will have to do a LOT more than simply swap coal for gas. We are the per-capita biggest polluters in the world and only China exceeds us in total emissions.