The UK’s climate-warming pollution fell 3% in 2024, the latest Government figures show.
The final tally for 2024 shows greenhouse gas emissions were down 3% on 2023, and were also 53% below the baseline year of 1990 – even as the economy grew 80% over that time.
Environmental_Move38 on
And our energy prices went up how much more. We’re all getting poorer.
Brilliant, we’re all saved.
*the Chinese building more coal power stations and is increasing its carbon emissions, it doesn’t matter irony claxon going off*
Difficult_Bag69 on
Outsourced to a less developed country where pollution practices are even less clean. All the while our energy prices sky rocket.
WINNING!
Bubbly_Mud8730 on
Yet as a country we’re ordering Chinese tat like never before, Temu, clothes, vaping like crazy.. outsourced are problems to other countries and we’re paying the price with electricity costs.
Ill_Refrigerator_593 on
~~Yeah but climate change isn’t happening.~~
~~I mean climate change is natural.~~
~~I mean we can’t do anything about it anyway.~~
I mean doing anything about it isn’t worth the cost.
djwillis1121 on
Always the same predictable comments in any thread about this…
Just because someone else is worse than us (although they’re making efforts to improve as well) doesn’t mean we should just do nothing.
Also, reducing our emissions helps clean up our air and make life healthier for everyone here. Nothing China is doing will affect that.
Diligent_Craft_1165 on
We just offshore them and leave ourselves with the highest commercial energy bills in the world. Nobody has seen our actions and thought they’ll cut their emissions too.
We still get the global warming, just with our economy cooked as well.
KernowKermit on
Amazing how they can write an article like that without setting it in a global context (rising greenhouse gas emissions that dwarf any reduction in the UK) and examining the cost to the British population (highest energy costs in the world and a stagnant economy).
The cost of the UK’s Net Zero transition could exceed £8-9 trillion by 2050. It could add another £1000 to typical household energy bills.
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The UK’s climate-warming pollution fell 3% in 2024, the latest Government figures show.
The final tally for 2024 shows greenhouse gas emissions were down 3% on 2023, and were also 53% below the baseline year of 1990 – even as the economy grew 80% over that time.
And our energy prices went up how much more. We’re all getting poorer.
Brilliant, we’re all saved.
*the Chinese building more coal power stations and is increasing its carbon emissions, it doesn’t matter irony claxon going off*
Outsourced to a less developed country where pollution practices are even less clean. All the while our energy prices sky rocket.
WINNING!
Yet as a country we’re ordering Chinese tat like never before, Temu, clothes, vaping like crazy.. outsourced are problems to other countries and we’re paying the price with electricity costs.
~~Yeah but climate change isn’t happening.~~
~~I mean climate change is natural.~~
~~I mean we can’t do anything about it anyway.~~
I mean doing anything about it isn’t worth the cost.
Always the same predictable comments in any thread about this…
Just because someone else is worse than us (although they’re making efforts to improve as well) doesn’t mean we should just do nothing.
Also, reducing our emissions helps clean up our air and make life healthier for everyone here. Nothing China is doing will affect that.
We just offshore them and leave ourselves with the highest commercial energy bills in the world. Nobody has seen our actions and thought they’ll cut their emissions too.
We still get the global warming, just with our economy cooked as well.
Amazing how they can write an article like that without setting it in a global context (rising greenhouse gas emissions that dwarf any reduction in the UK) and examining the cost to the British population (highest energy costs in the world and a stagnant economy).
The cost of the UK’s Net Zero transition could exceed £8-9 trillion by 2050. It could add another £1000 to typical household energy bills.
Still, good to hear they’re “doubling down”.