Global emissions and Labour’s green plans | Letters
by Letters from on (#4TAD9)
Ordinary citizens must be informed of the dramatic lifestyle changes and costs they face, says Geoffrey Hammond, and Tim Walker focuses on the area of new solar panels that will be required
The ambition in the Labour party's new plans for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is, of course, welcome (Labour spells out 30-point plan in new green pledge, 24 October). But climate change is a global phenomenon, and the UK only emits 1% of annual world GHG emissions in contrast to China at 22%, the US 13%, the rest of the EU28 7%, and India 7%.
In order to ensure that the average global atmospheric temperature is stabilised at around 1.5C-2C, thereby avoiding dramatic climate change in this century, the large emitter countries will need to significantly reduce their emissions going forward.
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