We should consider incentising companies to encourage WFH options, further reduce costs of public transport to encourage usage and try to incentivise carpooling.
Tough decisions will have to be made re agriculture and data centres also.
*Everyone’s* emissions went up in 2021.
That’s what happens when you slam a massive brake on the world economy in 2019 and then start reactivating it a year or so later.
Comparing ourselves to an outlier year like 2020 probably doesn’t do anybody any favours, but certainly more work to be done and going in the wrong way currently.
The fact our population is increasing rapidly doesn’t help either, given our target is a total and not a per capita emission target.
Big changes in agriculture coming soonish I’d say, and they’re not going to like it one bit.
Agriculture is the biggest at almost 40%. And it grew.
George Monbiot was on Prime Time saying we need to end animal agriculture. He’s probably right.
As others have said, it is probably pointless comparing to 2020 due to the pandemic. The 2021 figure, 61.53 million tonnes is higher than the 2017 figure, 60.7, and the 2018 60.8. Whatever measures are being put in place to meet the Paris Agreement are not working, or there are no measures being put in place.
Why have the Greens not fixed this yet? /s
For everyone who is forgetting, agriculture includes plants, it’s not just cows or pigs or whatever
It “went up” based on a lockdown year of 2020 or?
I mean China built 50% of all coal powered plants last year but sure lets hammer our farmers and introduce fuel rationing here to “do our part” ey?
TOTAL FAILURE. WHAT A SURPRISE
Wow a whole 4.7% while China has over 1000 coal burning plants and plans to build more. Yeah our emissions going up by less than 5% is the problem
Am I this only one who prefers warmer summers and less frosty winters?
Good.
*”Am sure those with power and wealth will be along shortly to fix this, you know like they said during CoP 26, it’s not like those in power lie to us all to gain more money and power, I trust them to do the right thing, I really don’t want to take off these glasses”*
Another graph blames the individual and tells people that they have to change. Why don’t we actually look at the consumption of the industries that make new goods? You don’t need a new iPhone or Android this year so stop buying them until there’s a cleaner way to make them.
Stop buying disposable bbq’s in Aldi/Lidl. Stop buying anything that comes from more than 300km away, shop local but don’t buy avocados.
Stop making new things when the thing you have is working fine.
Food production is the single most important industry in the world. Jeprodisring that at a time when food security is at risk seems like a false economy to me. Save a few % on GHG emissions….potentially let millions go hungry/starve.
So what does this 4.7% translate too on the global scale?
I can’t wait to see the shit show start when the government tells farmers to stop farming. Netherlands 2.0 here we come.
Another climate post. Yawn.
Energy production actually was the biggest rise. This was due to not enough being produced by renewables. So more fossil fuel burnt. So blame agriculture for all the woes go figure.
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We should consider incentising companies to encourage WFH options, further reduce costs of public transport to encourage usage and try to incentivise carpooling.
Tough decisions will have to be made re agriculture and data centres also.
*Everyone’s* emissions went up in 2021.
That’s what happens when you slam a massive brake on the world economy in 2019 and then start reactivating it a year or so later.
Comparing ourselves to an outlier year like 2020 probably doesn’t do anybody any favours, but certainly more work to be done and going in the wrong way currently.
The fact our population is increasing rapidly doesn’t help either, given our target is a total and not a per capita emission target.
Big changes in agriculture coming soonish I’d say, and they’re not going to like it one bit.
Agriculture is the biggest at almost 40%. And it grew.
George Monbiot was on Prime Time saying we need to end animal agriculture. He’s probably right.
https://twitter.com/RTE_PrimeTime/status/1549524231469371392
As others have said, it is probably pointless comparing to 2020 due to the pandemic. The 2021 figure, 61.53 million tonnes is higher than the 2017 figure, 60.7, and the 2018 60.8. Whatever measures are being put in place to meet the Paris Agreement are not working, or there are no measures being put in place.
Why have the Greens not fixed this yet? /s
For everyone who is forgetting, agriculture includes plants, it’s not just cows or pigs or whatever
It “went up” based on a lockdown year of 2020 or?
I mean China built 50% of all coal powered plants last year but sure lets hammer our farmers and introduce fuel rationing here to “do our part” ey?
TOTAL FAILURE. WHAT A SURPRISE
Wow a whole 4.7% while China has over 1000 coal burning plants and plans to build more. Yeah our emissions going up by less than 5% is the problem
Am I this only one who prefers warmer summers and less frosty winters?
Good.
*”Am sure those with power and wealth will be along shortly to fix this, you know like they said during CoP 26, it’s not like those in power lie to us all to gain more money and power, I trust them to do the right thing, I really don’t want to take off these glasses”*
Another graph blames the individual and tells people that they have to change. Why don’t we actually look at the consumption of the industries that make new goods? You don’t need a new iPhone or Android this year so stop buying them until there’s a cleaner way to make them.
Stop buying disposable bbq’s in Aldi/Lidl. Stop buying anything that comes from more than 300km away, shop local but don’t buy avocados.
Stop making new things when the thing you have is working fine.
Food production is the single most important industry in the world. Jeprodisring that at a time when food security is at risk seems like a false economy to me. Save a few % on GHG emissions….potentially let millions go hungry/starve.
So what does this 4.7% translate too on the global scale?
I can’t wait to see the shit show start when the government tells farmers to stop farming. Netherlands 2.0 here we come.
Another climate post. Yawn.
Energy production actually was the biggest rise. This was due to not enough being produced by renewables. So more fossil fuel burnt. So blame agriculture for all the woes go figure.