EU unveils climate law, Thunberg calls it 'surrender'

[snoop1130]

EU unveils climate law, Thunberg calls it 'surrender'

By Kate Abnett

 

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen reacts as she attends a meeting with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and European Commissioners at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission unveiled a “climate law” on Wednesday to make the EU’s 2050 net zero emissions target legally binding, but Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and NGOs said more urgent action was needed to beat the climate crisis.

 

The European Union’s executive approved the proposed regulation at a meeting attended by Thunberg.

 

The climate law, which needs the approval of the European Parliament and member states, would commit the 27-nation EU to reducing its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. It omits a target that was included in a draft of the law — to achieve net “removals” of greenhouse gases after this date.

 

According to the regulation, 2050 will be an EU-wide goal, which raises the possibility that some member states could reduce their emissions to net zero at a later date if other countries decarbonise early.

 

Thunberg, 17, said the law fails to address the next 10 years.

 

“‘Net zero emissions by 2050’ for the EU equals surrender. It means giving up,” she and 33 other youth climate activists said in an open letter published on Tuesday. “We don’t just need goals for just 2030 or 2050. We, above all, need them for 2020 and every following month and year to come.”

 

U.N. SUMMIT DEADLINE

 

Environment groups also objected to the law’s plan for the Commission to review the EU 2030 emissions target by September.

 

That is only two months before a deadline at the U.N. climate summit in November, when all parties to the Paris Agreement on fighting climate change must make more ambitious emissions pledges to put the world on track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

 

Twelve EU countries – including France, Italy and the Netherlands but not the EU’s biggest emitter, Germany – want the Commission to revise the 2030 goal in June.

 

They say that would leave enough time for the EU to adopt the new 2030 target and use it to pressure large emitters such as China to raise their climate pledges before the summit.

 

“Delaying discussions until September would crush the EU’s ability to play a leading role in global climate talks,” Greenpeace climate policy adviser Sebastian Mang said.

 

The NGO projected an image of flames onto the European Commission building in Brussels on Tuesday, urging leaders to tackle climate change as urgently as if a house were on fire.

 

The Commission wants to tighten the EU’s 2030 climate target to a 50% or 55% cut in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels, rather than the current minimum of 40%.

 

From 2030, the law would give Brussels power to impose tighter EU interim emissions targets every five years to steer the bloc towards its 2050 goal.

 

The Commission would impose these new targets through a delegated act, whereby a qualified majority of members of the European Parliament or member states could reject the proposal but would not have the power to propose an alternative.

 

Member states may find this proposal hard to swallow.

 

“One thing that will absolutely not fly is the delegated act. It’s dead on arrival,” said Michael Bloss, a German member of the European Parliament.

 

The European Council – grouping EU governments – agrees climate targets now by unanimity. A single country can block a climate aim.

 

Legal experts say the climate law would give Brussels extra tools to pressure countries before 2030. Starting in 2023, the Commission will name and shame member states not complying with EU climate targets and publish recommendations to get on track.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-03-04

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[brokenbone]

no wonder the euro is sinking vs thai baht with such dumb politicians,

they are making europe less competitive and so euro can only drop to reflect

this sad state of affairs.

on a bright note, rest of the world will make up for the slack

so we can still foresee a continued enrichment of co2

for a greener and better world, but its a shame europeans willingly

go into poverty

Edited March 4, 2020 by brokenbone

[Laughing Gravy]

This young impressionable girl who is very narcissistic, certainly seems to be getting played. I am sure her parents are aware of this. Why isn't she in school instead of jet setting around the world, throwing tantrums and rattles out of her pram. After all it wasn't to long ago when she was in a pram.

 

Personally I find her annoying.

[Chomper Higgot]

33 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

This young impressionable girl who is very narcissistic, certainly seems to be getting played. I am sure her parents are aware of this. Why isn't she in school instead of jet setting around the world, throwing tantrums and rattles out of her pram. After all it wasn't to long ago when she was in a pram.

 

Personally I find her annoying.

“Personally I find her annoying.”

 

Uncontrollable obsession can get like that.

 

Swerving anything in the article, you instead pour out a stream of bile on this youngster.

 

This demonstrable obsession of yours doesn’t come across as particularly healthy.

[blazes]

First,  Americans vote for a demented corrupt politician, who can't remember what political job he is campaigning for,

then Europeans sit there listening to a scrawny teenager telling them to f off.

 

Is there no end to the insanity that is currently possessing the  world?

[JonnyF]

Is it possible to have 2 more clueless, irritating individuals in the same photo than Ursula Von Der Leyen and Greta Thunberg?

 

What a shame they're not in agreement. Tragic in fact. I'll have to boil some Lentil tea to cry into.

[vogie]

Somebody once said, "some people worry about what planet we are leaving for our children, I am honestly more concerned what sort of children we are leaving for our planet."

 

Oh how true.

[faraday]

Why isn't she in school, getting an education, so she can really know what she's doing?

 

 

[nobodysfriend]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

“We don’t just need goals for just 2030 or 2050. We, above all, need them for 2020 and every following month and year to come.”

 

She is right . And I liked her speech at the UN as well ... it is more than time that somebody tells it as it is .

At the UN she said : ...  "and I do not want to believe that you are evil " ... but they are , Greta ...

[DoctorG]

In the meantime, German companies are looking to set up operation in the UK.

[Baerboxer]

9 hours ago, brokenbone said:

no wonder the euro is sinking vs thai baht with such dumb politicians,

they are making europe less competitive and so euro can only drop to reflect

this sad state of affairs.

on a bright note, rest of the world will make up for the slack

so we can still foresee a continued enrichment of co2

for a greener and better world, but its a shame europeans willingly

go into poverty

 

Indeed. And politicians so dumb they want to be photographed with this exploited sad young lady for a publicity stunt.

 

Kudos to Greta's liberal PC activist parents, scriptwriters and manipulators for getting her so much exposure.

 

Now when's she going to China and India to confront Xi and Modi and demand they listen to her; demand they stop screwing her future; and offer no idea of any solutions?

[Baerboxer]

2 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

She is right . And I liked her speech at the UN as well ... it is more than time that somebody tells it as it is .

At the UN she said : ...  "and I do not want to believe that you are evil " ... but they are , Greta ...

 

If there is any evil it's her exploitative and manipulative parents and their cronies using her to make money and spread their agendas and views. 

 

 

[Baerboxer]

3 hours ago, blazes said:

First,  Americans vote for a demented corrupt politician, who can't remember what political job he is campaigning for,

then Europeans sit there listening to a scrawny teenager telling them to f off.

 

Is there no end to the insanity that is currently possessing the  world?

 

Makes Russia, China, India and Japan look saner and saner.

 

Notice she confines her staged orchestrated rants to "friendly" Western countries.

 

Maybe she needs educating on which nations account for the lion's share of polluting the earth. Only her liberal PC parents and their circus show ain't gonna be welcome there.

[Baerboxer]

3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

“Personally I find her annoying.”

 

Uncontrollable obsession can get like that.

 

Swerving anything in the article, you instead pour out a stream of bile on this youngster.

 

This demonstrable obsession of yours doesn’t come across as particularly healthy.

 

Some people would applaud if she said tomorrow's Friday and s12t stinks!

 

She goes around politically friendly countries stating peripheral obvious comments, offering no new ideas, whilst rudely berating people who with better education, experience and understanding.

 

But hey, her liberal PC activist parents and their left wing cronies have the correct political views, so let's all applaud her circus performance like performing seals. She might throw a fish!

Edited March 5, 2020 by Baerboxer

[allen303]

5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

“Personally I find her annoying.”

 

Uncontrollable obsession can get like that.

 

Swerving anything in the article, you instead pour out a stream of bile on this youngster.

 

This demonstrable obsession of yours doesn’t come across as particularly healthy.

 Sort of like that uncontrolled obsession that some have on TV? With certain elected leaders and their country?

[evadgib]

3 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Indeed. And politicians so dumb they want to be photographed with this exploited sad young lady for a publicity stunt.

 

Kudos to Greta's liberal PC activist parents, scriptwriters and manipulators for getting her so much exposure.

 

Now when's she going to China and India to confront Xi and Modi and demand they listen to her; demand they stop screwing her future; and offer no idea of any solutions?

Piers Morgan said same while interviewing her German opposite number (Naomi Seibt or something like that-I'm not on my preferred device) plus a British wannabe on GMB yesterday.

Edited March 5, 2020 by evadgib

[evadgib]

6 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

“Personally I find her annoying.”

 

Uncontrollable obsession can get like that.

 

Swerving anything in the article, you instead pour out a stream of bile on this youngster.

 

This demonstrable obsession of yours doesn’t come across as particularly healthy.

Your own obsession with this young girl and LG hasn't gone unnoticed. Try concentrating on his post.

[Orton Rd]

Grumpy doomsday Greta or nice and reasonable Naomi, I know which one I agree with

 

 

Edited March 5, 2020 by Orton Rd

[ivor bigun]

Why anyone listens to this stupid little girl is beyond me. govts are looking foolish .

[evadgib]

12 minutes ago, ivor bigun said:

Why anyone listens to this stupid little girl is beyond me. govts are looking foolish .

TBH she's playing her part to a tee. The real players are whoever is funding her and pulling the strings. That's where Joe Public needs to wake up!

[Logosone]

So first Ursula von der Leyen makes a complete mess of the Bundeswehr. Handpicked by Angela Merkel's feminist old hag's network her tenure as defence minister was an absolute and unmitigated disaster punctuated by waste and incompetence. So much so that von der Leyen's practice of hiring (female) advisers en masse was raised in the Bundestag and a special commission created to investigate this waste. On top she was denounced to police by an insider, all without any censure whatsoever.

 

That von der Leyen became a defence minister is a shocker in and of itself, given that she was done for plagiarism in her dissertation and whole swathes of her work merely plagiarised.

 

Yet again she escaped any kind of censure, even though the investigating body found she had plagiarised.

 

Not only is she not censured, thanks to the same old hag's network which selected Kramp-Karrenbauer as the next prime minister, another top notch appointment, Merkel made sure that von der Leyen gets rewarded by heading the EU.

 

To make Foto ops with disturbed and emotionally challenged female teenagers.

 

What we are seeing is the absolutely destructive influence of the feminist lobby on the political scence.

 

 

[Krataiboy]

Greta Thunberg is deserving of everyone's sympathy and support, if her latest photograph is anything to judge by. She looks worryingly gaunt and frail. But what else can be expected of a child who carries weight of a dying world on her narrow shoulders?

 

Like teenagers everywhere, Greta should be having fun. Instead she has ended up as "Saint Greta" - a human shield for climate change alarmists being sponsored, ironically, by some of the world's biggest fossil fuel polluters.

 

This saint is being ruthlessly manipulated and exploited by sinners. Let us pray she does not end up a martyr to their unworthy cause.

Edited March 5, 2020 by Krataiboy

[Logosone]

Carrying the weight of a dying world on her shoulders....a saint.....Hahahahahahahahaha....

 

Posturing buffoon more like.

[Krataiboy]

13 minutes ago, Logosone said:

Carrying the weight of a dying world on her shoulders....a saint.....Hahahahahahahahaha....

 

Posturing buffoon more like.

You're all heart.

[from the home of CC]

very surprised that big eco hasn't stated this rampant virus a product of global warming...

[thaibeachlovers]

7 hours ago, blazes said:

First,  Americans vote for a demented corrupt politician, who can't remember what political job he is campaigning for,

then Europeans sit there listening to a scrawny teenager telling them to f off.

 

Is there no end to the insanity that is currently possessing the  world?

No

[Eric Loh]

1 hour ago, Krataiboy said:

Greta Thunberg is deserving of everyone's sympathy and support, if her latest photograph is anything to judge by. She looks worryingly gaunt and frail. But what else can be expected of a child who carries weight of a dying world on her narrow shoulders?

 

Like teenagers everywhere, Greta should be having fun. Instead she has ended up as "Saint Greta" - a human shield for climate change alarmists being sponsored, ironically, by some of the world's biggest fossil fuel polluters.

 

This saint is being ruthlessly manipulated and exploited by sinners. Let us pray she does not end up a martyr to their unworthy cause.

She will be remembered by her well meaning and dire message. Next Greta on the horizon. Message is clear if the world don’t take corrective action. 

[JustAnotherHun]

Saint Greta's travelling from one meeting to the next summit is producing a quite nice and big ecological footprint...

[Thingamabob]

8 hours ago, vogie said:

Somebody once said, "some people worry about what planet we are leaving for our children, I am honestly more concerned what sort of children we are leaving for our planet."

 

Oh how true.

Well said.

[Nyezhov]

2 hours ago, ivor bigun said:

Why anyone listens to this stupid little girl is beyond me. govts are looking foolish .

Is there a way to give multiple trophies for that post?