São boas notícias, mas eu gostaria de saber o impacto efectivo nesses resultados, não tanto da crise em curso, mas do processo de deslocalização: (nós não produzimos porque os chineses se encarregam disso, embora continuemos a consumir os produtos, donde sermos responsáveis pelas emissões chinesas via as suas exportações/nossas importações):
Europe to easily beat Kyoto target — looks like the European Trading System has worked after all « Climate Progress:
"Europe made a major commitment under the Kyoto Protocol that U.S.
conservatives have been telling us for years it would never achieve. In
fact, the Europeans are poised to surpass their targets under the terms
of the Protocol. It is no longer plausible for those who don’t want a
U.S. cap-and-trade system to point to the European Trading System (ETS)
as a failure. Quite the reverse. A report by the European Environment
Agency released today shows that the European Union and all Member
States but one [Austria] are on track to meet their Kyoto Protocol
commitments to limit and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Whereas
the Protocol requires that the EU-15 reduce average emissions during
2008–2012 to 8% below 1990 levels, the latest projections indicate that
the EU-15 will go further, reaching a total reduction of more than 13 %
below the base year.…"
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PS: Mais este:
NYRblog - Copenhagen Crisis: Why the US Needs Cap and Trade - The New York Review of Books: "It’s sometimes argued that the European experience with cap and trade shows that it doesn’t work. But this is simply untrue: the European legislation is on target to deliver the full 8 percent of reductions below 1990 levels promised by 2012, and furthermore it has left Europe with an appetite for even steeper reductions in future. Europeans have unilaterally decided to reduce emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, and have offered to increase that to a 30 percent reduction if the rest of the world agrees to take action. Cap and trade clearly works, which is why the lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry are resisting it so fiercely."
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PS: Mais este:
NYRblog - Copenhagen Crisis: Why the US Needs Cap and Trade - The New York Review of Books: "It’s sometimes argued that the European experience with cap and trade shows that it doesn’t work. But this is simply untrue: the European legislation is on target to deliver the full 8 percent of reductions below 1990 levels promised by 2012, and furthermore it has left Europe with an appetite for even steeper reductions in future. Europeans have unilaterally decided to reduce emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, and have offered to increase that to a 30 percent reduction if the rest of the world agrees to take action. Cap and trade clearly works, which is why the lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry are resisting it so fiercely."
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