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by pl-94 1706 days ago
By the way, with or without nuclear power, the FitFor55 proposal sounds completely unreasonable to me. 1. It projects a 35% increase of energy efficiency in 10 years. You might achieve it in virtual lifes, but not in the real world (ask a cow to burp less!?) 2. It concerns domestic net emissions. Meaning that the policy is incentiving to de-localisation of industry in China (which already explains most of the progress achieved so far).
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hannob 1706 days ago
> It concerns domestic net emissions. Meaning that the policy is incentiving to de-localisation of industry in China

This is simply not true.

The EU is trying to adress this with a mechanism called CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism). It's complicated and not sure how well it'll work out, but claiming that this is not adressed is wrong.

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wumpus 1706 days ago
> (ask a cow to burp less!?)

Are you aware of research about reducing methane by feeding cows a small amount of seaweed? I'm guessing no.

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