Europe wants to reduce CO2 emissions

[Ahmed]

Europe is striving to make people believe that it wants to reduce its CO2 emissions ... Usual propaganda!

[moinsdewatt]

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In short, I remain convinced that the reduction in CO2 emissions will only become truly effective if we negotiate a regular and lasting reduction in the extraction of fossil materials from underground. I didn't really hear that in the COp21 agreements unfortunately.
Let's say that considering the financial interests at stake I think it's pretty utopian for the moment anyway.

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Coal consumption is falling worldwide. Especially because of China.

Read here: http://www.oleocene.org/phpBB3/viewtopi ... 51#p384051

[moinsdewatt]

Europe is striving to make people believe that it wants to reduce its CO2 emissions ... Usual propaganda!

and yet if!

Greenhouse gases: Europe has pulverized its emission reduction targets

May 30, 2014 Les Echos

Emissions from the 36 countries bound by the Kyoto Treaty, including those from the European Union, decreased by 24% compared to 1990.
The tertiarization of their economy largely explains this record decline, which exceeds six times the objectives set.

The figure is impressive. At the end of 2012, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the 36 most developed countries in the world were almost a quarter lower - exactly 24% - than in 1990.
This decrease is apparent from the first data published in April on the commitment period (2008-2012) of the Kyoto Protocol. It exceeds by six times the objectives (- 4%) allotted to these countries within the framework of this international treaty, concluded in 1997 and which must succeed in 2015 the conference on the climate of Paris, a new agreement implying this time all the countries of the world.

The European Union countries, which were only 15 at the time, are ahead. Portugal, Sweden and Greece have literally “exploded” their targets, with a deviation of more than 20 points from their commitments (Sweden, for example, reduced its emissions by 18% despite having committed to do not increase them by more than 4%). A little less virtuous, France and Great Britain, which had to stabilize their emissions, actually reduced them by more than 10%. Germany, which had set an ambitious target (- 21%) managed to achieve a drop of 24%.

This dramatic decrease is not, however, an exact reflection of the efforts made to "reduce gases". The crisis and the slowdown in activity contributed to this. Especially in the countries of the former eastern bloc, which did not have to struggle: their industry collapsed in the 1990s, de facto emitting much less CO2. The decline was on average 40%, against a target of - 1,9%! Latvia, for example, reduced its emissions by 61%, Bulgaria by 53%, etc. Even without the emission permits due to the accumulation of "hot air" by these countries, "overall, the commitments made would have been respected", judge CDC-Climat experts in the evaluation of the Kyoto protocol that they just delivered.

Relocation of production activities

Structural changes in the economies of these 36 developed countries have had a real impact. The 36% growth observed between 1990 and 2011 is due to the development of services. A sector with an energy intensity much lower than agriculture and industry, whose growth has been almost zero.

The countries of the Old Continent have also changed their energy mix towards less carbon-based solutions: gas has been preferred to coal and oil to power power plants. This shift, neither the United States, turned towards shale gas extraction, nor Canada, harnessed to that of the oil sands, have negotiated it. These two countries, not involved in the protocol, have also greatly increased their emissions: + 18,5% for Canada and + 9,5% for the United States.

European industry and that of other developed countries also appears more virtuous than before. Part of it may be due to the shift of production activities to developing countries. By integrating the GHGs emitted to manufacture goods imported from China or elsewhere, and whose volume has continued to increase, the balance sheet would be a priori less flattering. But this scenario is not proven. "Globally, the industry emits less CO2 per unit of GDP," observe experts at CDC Climat. According to their calculations, the energy intensity of the industry has decreased by a quarter.

http://www.lesechos.fr/monde/asie-pacif ... 674573.php

[Ahmed]

I would not present this as the result of a will, but only of fortuitous and conjunctural causes.

[moinsdewatt]

I would not present this as the result of a will, but only of fortuitous and conjunctural causes.

And Europe 's CO2 emissions will fall further with the rise of green energy and renewable energy.

[Ahmed]

What matters is the global balance sheet on a global scale, Europe may well drape itself in its virtue (?) ...

[moinsdewatt]

Which countries emit the most CO2 in the European Union?

BFMTV May 9, 2019

Between 2017 and 2018, CO2 emissions fell by 2,5% across the European Union. A pretty good score, especially if you compare it to the rest of the world.

But not all member states make the same effort, according to Eurostat. In north-eastern Europe, for example, we note that many countries saw their carbon dioxide emissions increase between 2017 and 2018.

The best student is Portugal, which has reduced its CO2 emissions by 9% in one year. Overall, the Mediterranean states show good figures: -8,1% in Bulgaria, -4,3% in Croatia, -3,6% in Greece ...

If the trend of these countries is rather good, it must however be taken into account that they are not the ones who pollute the most.

1/4 of EU CO2 emissions come from Germany
In 2018, Germany remains by far the state that emits the most CO2. Alone, it accounts for almost a quarter (22,5%) of the European Union's total emissions. Twice as much as the United Kingdom (11,4%), Poland (10,3%) or France (10%).

The "most polluting" European states are however on the right track since they all reduced their CO2 emissions between 2017 and 2018 - with the notable exception of Poland, which increased its emissions by 3,5% during the same period, one of the worst scores in the entire European Union.

See the infographics in the link
https://www.bfmtv.com/international/que ... xtor=AL-68