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UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com)
The UK is taking a tentative step towards a radical "green" future with zero emissions of greenhouse gases. From a report: The government is formally seeking Climate Change Committee (CCC) guidance about how and when to make this leap. If it happens it would mark an extraordinary transformation of an economy built on burning fossil fuels. The decision was prompted by last week's UN report warning that CO2 emissions must be stopped completely to avoid dangerous climate disruption.
Climate minister Claire Perry told BBC News: "The report was a really stark and sober piece of work -- a good piece of work. "Now we know what the goal is and we know what some of the levers are. But for me, the constant question is what is the cost and who's going to bear that, both in the UK and in the global economy. The question is: what does government need to do, where can the private sector come in, and what technologies will come through?"
Ms Perry has declared this week to be Green GB Week, which aims to raise debate in society about how to tackle climate change while also growing the economy. The UK's current target is a reduction of 80% of emissions by 2050 based on 1990 levels. But the CCC is warning that the UK will drift further away from this goal unless new policies are introduced.
Climate minister Claire Perry told BBC News: "The report was a really stark and sober piece of work -- a good piece of work. "Now we know what the goal is and we know what some of the levers are. But for me, the constant question is what is the cost and who's going to bear that, both in the UK and in the global economy. The question is: what does government need to do, where can the private sector come in, and what technologies will come through?"
Ms Perry has declared this week to be Green GB Week, which aims to raise debate in society about how to tackle climate change while also growing the economy. The UK's current target is a reduction of 80% of emissions by 2050 based on 1990 levels. But the CCC is warning that the UK will drift further away from this goal unless new policies are introduced.
Sounds like typical scaremongering. Or religious fervor. Better pay now. The environmental Gawd is watching.
There are over 400 operating commercial nuclear power reactors on this planet.
And 3 of those 400 went boom. Several others nearly went boom.
what is demonstrably the safest energy source we have today is unbelievable.
Obviously it is not the safest. Not even if you use your idiotic "death per TWh" metric.
Or when did you actually hear a solar plant go boom? Or a coal pant for that matter? How often do or did dams break?
If you want to build nuclear plants, do it in your country. Or try to convince China or India to do it. Or do all together. In west Europe, nuklear is dead. For many reasons. Two reactors are still under construction (in europe) with time and cost overruns ... lets see if they ever get online. I doubt anyone will attempt to build another one here.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Chernobyl killed about a million people.
There is a long time to catch up with that due to "coal mining".
Ok.... In the US there are about 35 coal miners killed each year.
That is a shame for US safety standards, or how they are enforced.
Don't you think so?
You pay the price for "cheap coal" with the deaths of your miners and want to use that as an argument for other power sources?
Wow ...
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
We're Haole, bro; we don't speak Moke.