EU wants Paris climate deal to cut carbon emissions 60% by 2050

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

EU wants Paris climate deal to cut carbon emissions 60% by 2050

Arthur Neslen in Brussels
Monday 23 February 2015 16.32 GMT

The world’s states should commit to a legally binding emissions cut of 60% by 2050, with five-yearly reviews, in a Paris Protocol to replace the moribund Kyoto agreement at a climate summit later this year, according to a leaked EU document.

But environmentalists have questioned the integrity of the headline 60% figure, and a strategy which is seen as overly-tilted towards the US.

“Major economies, in particular the EU, China and the US, should show political leadership by joining the Protocol as early as possible,” says the EU’s ‘Road to Paris 2015’ communication, which the Guardian has seen. “It should enter into force as soon as countries with a share of 80% of current global emissions have ratified it.

The EU accounts for nine percent of global emissions, compared to China’s 24%, and the 12% emitted by the US, according to the document. “Combined, these targets would cover around half of global emissions,” it says.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/23/eu-wants-paris-climate-deal-to-cut-carbon-emissions-60-by-2050

[Demeter]

1. And I want a pony. Greece wants a break

We all three are going to be very disappointed.

I wouldn't sign ANYTHING the EU comes up with. Not after watching those clowns destroy nation after nation that were foolish enough to sign up for EU ponies and rainbows...

[GliderGuider]

2. I wonder how long it's going to take people to accept

that we're just as screwed as Dennis Meadows realized we were back in 1972?

A million years of evolved human nature is the long tail that's keeping us from turning this ship around.

Evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, complex systems and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The root causes of our insoluble predicament can all be found in the intersection of those disciplines. Our species has gone down to the crossroads with Faust and Robert Johnson.

Anyone who claims that technology and politics can fix a global problem that was created by - ahem - technology and politics, is farting rainbows.

[hatrack]

3. "2050! 2050! Do I hear 206020602060 halfadollhalfadollar wudyagivemewudyagiveme 206520652070!!"

[NickB79]

4. Wasn't 80% by 2050 the bare minimum to stay below 2C of warming?

http://grist.org/article/how-soon-do-we-need-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

That was 6 years ago, before we passed 400 ppm CO2.

[Nihil]

5. Got to keep kicking the can a little further down the road ...

... to ensure that any target date is well beyond re-election risks (or even lifetimes in most cases).

Same shit, different politicians.

No hope, no change, just more lies.