Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

EU Unveils Sweeping Climate Change Plan

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

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.

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
EU Unveils Sweeping Climate Change Plan | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 43 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @10:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @10:56AM (#1157835)

    Paris Agreement of 2016? Lots of hope then, lots of people celebrating and congratulating themselves over a ground-breaking agreement

    Remember the Kyoto Protocol? I thought it would be like what EU is proposing now, with border tariffs and forcing importers to adjust. Reality, fuck all happened. Oil usage went from 60m barrels per day to 90m.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol [wikipedia.org]