The clock is ticking
September 21st, 2009
Commissioner Dimas takes a call as a part of the “TCKTCKTCK campaign” which has been organised by a broad coalition of environmental and anti-poverty organisations in order to bring home the urgency of reaching an ambitious global deal on climate change at the Copenhagen conference in December”. For more details on the campaign visit the website.
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September 21st, 2009 at 8:32 pm #
While these sort of activities might help to highlight a need to deal with emissions,
it unfortunately done with the wrong emphasis.
Many people seem to enjoy self-sacrifices supposedly needed to “save the planet”
- and seek to impose it on everyone else.
The ultimate logic is to go and live in caves and use candles, with massive savings of energy and emissions - as long as we don’t bring any cows with us.
A different way forward,
is of a positive spirit of providing whatever energy that is needed,
together with any emission criteria that needs to be put on it.
In other words
Where there is a problem,
deal with the problem.
If you and you EU colleagues really were serious about lowering emissions (for all else they contain too, whatever about CO2),
then neither would you engage in irrelevant wideranging energy efficency regulation (especially on electrical products like dishwashers or light bulbs, that don’t give out CO2 in the first place)
nor
in meanderous CO2 emission trading schemes, with lots of loopholes,
that moreover create international trading tension,
and tension between developed and less developed countries of the kinds we are
beginning to witness.
While some of the below uses American statistics and research,
it clearly also applies in a European context:
Why All Energy Efficiency Regulation is Wrong
http://www.ceolas.net/#cc2x
Summary
Politicians don’t object to energy efficiency as it sounds too good to be true. It is.
The Consumer Side
Product Performance — Construction and Appearance
Price Increase — Lack of Actual Savings: Money, Energy or Emissions
Choice and Quality affected
Not Dealing with Energy and Emission Problems:
Example: The Light Bulb Ban
http://ceolas.net/#li1x
Summary: Why a light bulb ban is wrong - from every perspective
Official EU, USA, Canada and Australia links to energy efficiency bans
Market Reduction of CO2: Cap and Trade - or Not?
http://www.ceolas.net/#cce5x
Basic Idea — Offsets — Tree Planting — Manufacture Shift — Fair Trade — Surreal Market — Real Market — Allowances: Auctions + Hand-Outs — Allowance Trading — Companies: Business Stability + Business Cost — In Conclusion
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My country: Ireland
September 21st, 2009 at 8:38 pm #
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OK so what should you do?
Life can be simple.
Life can be hard.
Either you actually deal with problems,
or you figure out how you and your colleagues can look good, while doing nothing.
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Back to basics, Commissioner:
Where do emissions actually come from?
In developed countries, typically 4/5 of CO2 emissions are related to electricity generation and transport
Now, not only is a simple focus on these 2 areas enough in first phase 2020/2030
reduction targets,
but emission reduction carries other benefits, not only in reducing other substance emissions, but also importantly in efficiency benefits regarding for example
electricity grid development, and renewable options in both areas, as explained on the website.
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The costs are kept down also through fed/state guaranteed long term loans, minimizing consumer impact, and international relations are unaffected.
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Moreover, actual CO2 reduction benefits can be monitored such that if
in 2020/2030 it is not seen as relevant/worthwhile, little has been lost, given the other benefits achieved:
While if CO2 reduction needs to continue, efforts are on track and then - and only then - is it necessary to interfere with cement and other industrial activity
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The Way Forward
http://www.ceolas.net/#cc10x
Introduction
Funding and Impact — No Efficiency Regulation — A New Electric World
Electricity: Generation — Distribution
Transport: Power Generation — Regulation and Taxation considerations.
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My country: Ireland
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:59 pm #
test
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My country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 pm #
hopefully its not a call to a phone booth in the middle of Nevada desert, although I am sure the call collect is interested in forwarding THE GREEN AGENDA
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My country: United Kingdom
October 31st, 2009 at 12:30 am #
While I certainly believe that we all should do what we can to be cooperative with the environment, as considerate people would, I also believe that NATURE has its own cycles and behavior. It’s interesting how we are all supposed to fall into lock-step with a global green agenda right when our governments are flooding our breathing space with high/low electromagnetic frequencies of an unnatural kind. Hmmm…
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My country: United States of America
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