Posted on 03/04/2020 6:05:27 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BRUSSELS - - Amid fierce criticism from environmental activists, the European Commission unveiled plans Wednesday for its first ever climate law, which will act as the basis of the European Union’s aim to make the 27-country bloc climate neutral by 2050.
Under its Green Deal agenda, the EU’s executive arm wants to legislate to make its ambition of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to zero by mid-century irreversible, and legally-binding for all member states.
“This climate law will set in stone Europe’s position as a climate leader on the global stage,” said European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
To finance the climate transition, the EU plans to dedicate a quarter of its budget to tackling climate change and to work to mobilize 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) in investment over the next 10 years. The financial plan includes a mechanism designed to help the regions that would be most disrupted economically by the transition to cleaner industries.
Von der Leyen added that the commission started working on devising a “carbon border adjustment mechanism” aimed at avoiding a situation where EU countries reduce emissions as part of their ambition to make the continent carbon neutral by 2050, but at the same time import CO2 imbedded in goods.
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The Brits are going to be SO GLAD they are leaving the EU.
A suicide pact indeed. Wait until the solar minimum really gets going.
[[[but at the same time import CO2 imbedded in goods.]]]
Wow, they are going full on stupid.
Go ahead Yurps! Go ahead and cripple your economy in the name of Gaia worship. Show us the sacrifice Earth Mother Gaia demands.
“Wow, they are going full on stupid.”
They have been completely indoctrinated. To them, there is no other way that makes sense.
And that is what makes them dangerous.
Oh look, a bunch of pointless as-holes and their fake problems.
I have had my fill of Man, I am rooting for corona.
The UK has to be happy they are out.
So they have a “quarter” of their budget lying around unused......
If I’m alive in 30 years, I want to be the one who awards these idiots the Darwin Award
Let me guess. It involves more taxes, more spending, more regulation and more generous contracts for government cronies.
Let’s make Fuedalism and Serfdom great again!!
Generations of people that are never able to leave their villages!
Bring back “Ya Can’t get there from here!”
And Brits everywhere celebrate Brexit yet again! :)
This is just what other EU nations need to follow Great Britain’s departure from a centralized bunch of thieves and power hungry bureaucrats.
Let’s see, members of a carbon-based life-form are attempting to ban carbon.
Sounds like a Monty Python skit
The EU is a mess. It is basically a kleptocracy whose destructive bureaucratic weight will drag down every member country.
The Brits’ decision to leave will very soon be proven correct beyond dispute.
“make the continent carbon neutral”
There’s carbon in the continent. How are they going to neutralize all the carbon under their feet? They’re going to wipe out the continent? How crazy is this $#!t going to get?
That one trillion should go to feeding people in Africa instead of some one world order climate scam freakin bull. That’s right earth worshippers don’t care about the spirit of life. They really don’t even care about the earth neither they are the ones always trashing the planet and getting scared of bugs and squishing ‘em. They act like collective robots staring at their phones all day with no love in their hearts so it’s probably the A.I. telling them to save earth and blame Christian folk who are good and decent. Makes me sick to my stomach to see what is happening cause the evangelicals will probably fall for it too. Global religion. Save the earth. Hang rebel egg at the town square - he’s the scapegoat.
Not to worry. The Muslims will take over the place by then and the native’s carbon footprint will be driven to practically zero.
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