Replacing combustion engines with electric cars and switching industrial heat from fossil fuels to electricity are among the most impactful ways to decarbonise. Yet, in exactly in these areas Europe is weakening its policies.

much of the busy agenda was taken up by proposed climate rollbacks, including the replacement of the 2035 combustion-engine phase-out with weaker CO2 standards for new cars and weakening its carbon-pricing system for industries and power production.

Europe’s own electrification path has been slow compared to some other large economies, rising only about five percent since 1990. During this time, China went from six percent to almost 30 percent

  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    And old people think, right wing parties protect our pensions

    (While they kick the pensions even lower and blame insert any group with little power for their own greed)

    It is not old people that are our enemy. The only enemy we have is but the reactionary elite who manipulates the labourers!