No backing down on CO2 targets, says EU's next transport head
No backing down on CO2 targets, says EU's next transport head
The sure-to-be-next European Union commissioner for sustainable transport drew a hard line in a hearing this week: Apostolos Tzitzikostas backs e-mobility and has no intention of backing down on the EU’s plan to ban new registrations for ICE cars in 2035.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27671861
No backing down on CO2 targets, says EU's next transport head
Didn't they already back down? https://www.sae.org/news/2023/03/european-ice-ban
As if that matters anymore.
Every ton matters. Every ton buys us time or costs it to us
We were on a 3 degree path BEFORE Trump got re-elected, with many signs pointing towards us highly overestimating the amount of time we had as well. The West was supposed to carry the burden of the developing countries in regards to emissions, since we were the ones emitting the historic majority of it already, but we didn't, we already failed at that task. And now with Trump the US will go in full reverse mode. The rest of the world quite literally cannot compensate for that. It's basically over now. There's no "time to buy" anymore. And for what anyway? We don't need more time, we need significant climate action being taken. But no one actually wants that. Not companies, not politicians, not voters. People who do are a tiny fringe movement of "extremists".