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Climate summit cannot be politically correct green act of bunny hugging, UK prime minister says
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The virtual climate summit hosted by US President Biden cannot be “some expensive politically correct green act of ‘bunny hugging’” and must be about “growth and jobs,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday.
Praising the UK’s efforts on reducing carbon emissions, Johnson said, “We were the first country to pass legislation for net zero. We have the biggest offshore wind capacity of any country in the world, the Saudi Arabia of wind as I never tire of saying. We’re halfway to net zero.”
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Europe’s transport decarbonisation has never been an easy task. Transport is responsible for as much as 27% of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the EU and the European Commission admits that by 2030 things will not change dramatically.
Several pieces of legislation, such as the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), have attempted to change things, but without remarkable results.
The problem, as we all know, will not be fixed if one ignores reality. And if one disregards it on purpose, things will only deteriorate.
As an indication of the progress we have made, the Commission says, citing Eurostat, that renewables in the transport sector represented 8.9% in 2019.