Committee for Climate Change Report

[Bald Rick]

Chaired by Gummer, the CCC have just submitted a report to UK Government calling for "urgent action" to make UK Carbon Zero by 2050.

They recommend:

- planting over 3 billion trees between now & 2030
- reducing the consumption of beef, lamb & dairy products by one fifth
- No sale of new petrol & diesel cars by 2035
- 6000 more off shore wind turbines
- suggest that flying "may become a little more expensive"

Note that Scotland are tasked with being carbon zero by 2045 as they have more opportunities to do so & Wales "only" have to reduce emissions by 95% due to the difficulty in making significant reductions from sheep

More here:

https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/net-zero-the-uks-contribution-to-stopping-global-warming/

 

[Bald Rick]

Forgot to mention that Corbyn has tabled a motion for the UK to declare a

"Climate & Environment State of Emergency"

No doubt a little voice squeaked in his ear

 

[vantage]

Chaired by Gummer, the CCC have just submitted a report to UK Government calling for "urgent action" to make UK Carbon Zero by 2050.

They recommend:

- planting over 3 billion trees between now & 2030
- reducing the consumption of beef, lamb & dairy products by one fifth
- No sale of new petrol & diesel cars by 2035
- 6000 more off shore wind turbines
- suggest that flying "may become a little more expensive"

Note that Scotland are tasked with being carbon zero by 2045 as they have more opportunities to do so & Wales "only" have to reduce emissions by 95% due to the difficulty in making significant reductions from sheep

More here:

https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/net-zero-the-uks-contribution-to-stopping-global-warming/

All highly commendable. Just forget the fact that more rainforests will be chopped down to take up the slack,more food will be flown or shipped in ,but we'll think we're doing the right thing.

 

[vantage]

Is JSG the right person to chair it,remember "the beefburger"?

 

[vantage]

Forgot to mention that Corbyn has tabled a motion for the UK to declare a

"Climate & Environment State of Emergency"

No doubt a little voice squeaked in his ear

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Makes a change from Diane Abbot.

 

[delilah]

Makes a change from Diane Abbot.

omg do you have to, i am trying to eat my breakfast.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Makes a change from Diane Abbot.

There’s no words to describe her...she’s dangerous and worrying

 

[delilah]

This report amounts to the biggest boost for UK agriculture in 70 years.
It will be impossibe to meet the emission targets without a massive and urgent relocalization of food production and distribution.
Just needs the industries leaders to get that message across and the jobs a good un.

 

[andyt87]

These are from the BBC article. Right underneath saying agriculture is a major source of emissions.
What I see from these is that agriculture is reducing its emissions whilst being more productive, and there is a small reduction in household emissions from diet/agriculture.
The growth in emissions is from surface transport and aviation, on a per household and overall level, and construction of housing infrastructure as a result of population demands.

Where is the hate for transport and aviation? Why do councils allow a reduction in rural public transport services to the point they are unusable, self-fulfilling the plan to cut them altogether. The way to make people use trains definitely isn't to charge rediculous fares.

Fed up of people flying around the world eating tofu, replacing their lawns with AstroTurf because its more convenient but dictating policy on far less impactful practices.

 

[4course]

Ive posted on another thread and this is possibly going to be more suitable. Im asking if anyone knows how much a crop of say wheat or grass absorbs co2 in the process of photosynthesis cos it seems to me no one writing these articles and reports take it into account just farting cows

 

[betweenthelines]

The trouble is these types of reports are skewed to what is politically acceptable. More people fly abroad for holidays than work on farms, hence the bias against farming.

East Devon Council has done a similar exercise and says the biggest need is that all public car parks should be closed to reduce car usage. If people paid more than lip service to reducing climate change, all air travel and transport would be banned, all central heating switched off (not just turned down a bit) only seasonal food would be eaten and all mobile phones (made of plastic, rare minerals etc) would be scrapped. Not going to happen is it?

We need food to live, but we don't need (but want) cars, planes, mobile phones, central heating, avocados pasta and sun ripened tomatoes all year round.

Anyway, the public as a whole don't give a sh!t. If they did, proven killers like alcohol and tobacco would have dissappeared years ago.

 

[betweenthelines]

Anyway, the Earth's climate is always evolving. If social media had been around at the time, it would have been full of people panicking about "where are all the dinosaurs" "ice isn't covering most off the planet any more" and "Save the Neanderthal" campaigns

 

[Bald Rick]

Anyway, the Earth's climate is always evolving. If social media had been around at the time, it would have been full of people panicking about "where are all the dinosaurs" "ice isn't covering most off the planet any more" and "Save the Neanderthal" campaigns

Tell that to the BBC as one of their lead items on 6 o’clock news. Lapping it up and finishing item with video clip of 80m wind turbine blade under test

 

[Still Farming]

Bit on bbc breakfast news today about charity saying NO clothes they get in and recycle, sell on etc. goes to landfill.
The report then went on to say all they could not use was burnt in power stations etc.
I guess that adds to climate change and green house gases don't it ,and also bet the ash goes to land fill in the end ?