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EU Unveils Sweeping Climate Change Plan

posted by mrpg on Sunday July 18 2021, @12:12PM   

upstart writes:

EU unveils sweeping climate change plan:

The European Union has announced a raft of climate change proposals aimed at pushing it towards its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

A dozen draft proposals, which still need to be approved by the bloc's 27 member states and the EU parliament, were announced on Wednesday.

They include plans to tax jet fuel and effectively ban the sale of petrol and diesel powered cars within 20 years.

The proposals, however, could face years of negotiations.

The plans triggered serious infighting at the European Commission, the bloc's administrative arm, as the final tweaks were being made, sources told the AFP news agency.

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• Re:Reality check Re:Reality check (Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 18 2021, @09:05PM (1 child)

  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday July 18 2021, @09:05PM (#1157690) Journal

  Of course not. Book learnin' is fer Commies, homosexuals, and Europeans, but I repeat myself. Twice. That is seriously how large chunks of the US think.

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  I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

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• Re:Reality check (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @09:15PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @09:15PM (#1158042)

  I don't recall my mother warning me about any girls, except a chit-chat about venereal disease and pregnancy. It was a condom-centric kind of talk.

  I can only conclude that Azuma has a loudly ticking biological clock and syphilis.

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