Posted on 04/19/2024 4:52:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Scottish government has rescinded its 2030 target of a 75% emissions cut to greenhouse gas emissions, relative to 1990. The target was statutory, meaning it had been set in law in the Emissions Reduction Targets Act of 2019.
Scotland is still subject to the 2030 carbon target for the UK as a whole. This was set in law by the UK parliament in 2016. Still, Scotland's move raises questions about the credibility of national (or in this case subnational) carbon targets and the usefulness of putting them into law.
Climate policy experts have maintained that a crucial way to make net zero targets more credible is to put them into law. A full 75% of global net zero targets are underpinned by legislation or policy.
In 2017, Sweden was the first major economy to enact a statutory net zero target. The UK followed suit in 2019.
Scotland's decision to abandon its 2030 climate ambition is the most brazen violation of a statutory climate target yet. However, it has always been clear that legally binding carbon targets on their own are no guarantee for climate action. They matter, but the key to climate protection is a genuine commitment to implementation.
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“Climate policy experts have maintained that a crucial way to make net zero targets more credible”
When do we get to net zer0 “Climate Policy Experts”?
“A government that is evidently in breach of its own laws can be taken to court.”
Not in the US if one is not Deep State adjacent.
“Scotland’s move raises questions about the credibility of national (or in this case subnational) carbon targets and the usefulness of putting them into law.”
Yet none of these idiots ask the most important and most fundamental question of all: “Do we really need to stop using fossil fuels? And why?”
Only the developed Western word is engaging in this nonsense.
Exactly. The developing world, i.e., China, India, Indonesia, and others only want to catch up to the West’s living standards but are being lectured otherwise because of the false premise of “climate change.” They don’t give a damn; all they want is prosperity.
Did the laddies finally figure out it gets a wee bit cold in Scotland in the winter?
“[legally binding carbon targets] matter, but the key to climate protection is a genuine commitment to implementation.”
No, legally binding carbon targets are the key to destroying your nation, wiping out entire industries, and impoverishing everybody who isn’t a politician.
Then over time we can keep track of how much more energy we are using than we are "supposed" to and how much more carbon we are throwing into the atmosphere than we are "supposed" to and be happy there's a law.
It’s Insane to put Climate into Laws ,LOL
At the rate so many countries including ours are printing money a long global recession can’t be far off, maybe even a depression 30’s style. It will take something like this to put an end to this hoax anyway.
You can’t legally bind a country. You can shame it. You can penalize it. You can blockade it. You can go to war with it, but there is no court that actually has binding jurisdiction over a country, that can make its courts and government comply.
The main purpose in setting goals in law is to enable every Tom, Dick and Harry environmentalist to sue that nation and tie up any environmental retrenchment in civil and criminal courts until the country gives up and pretends to follow the “law”. The worse thing about the US environmental laws is their enshrining legal standing for kooks and their lawfare allies.
So...the politicians that passed this law...and then failed to achieve the required results...will go to jail for breaking the law? I can go for that.
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