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Stricter Draft Laws to be Considered by European Lawmakers for Global Emissions
By Patryk Krych | The World Daily MAY 8th 2020
Considerations have been going around amongst European Lawmakers, about whether or not tougher climate action ought to be taken In order to help tackle global emission goals on a more ambitious scale.
According to a draft document seen by journalists over at Reuters, the idea around the tougher climate action precautions would entail the complete decarbonisation of every member state by the year 2050, in a mass attempt to clamp down on the issue and take serious action towards climate change as a threat.
The proposition of the tougher approach towards climate law was originally put forth in March time, right before the announcement of the COVID-19 coronavirus as a pandemic threat, which put an economic halt on the European Union with the introduction of a new financial crisis. The proposition of a “green” investment was forced to be put to pause as a result, with too few funds to spare towards any further possible economic detriment. In order to take full effect and implement the carbonization of the EU by 2050, the law must be passed and agreed to by the lawmakers, as well as the member states who would be entering into a legally binding agreement.
Swedish Lawmaker Jytte Guteland, lead author of the draft document who’s been pushing for action, said that agreement to the implementation of these new “green” laws is necessary if we are to avoid the destructive and devastating outcomes predicted by climate scientists, resultant of excessive global warming.
“Scientists are talking about planetary limits. If we do not limit our emissions faster during the first 10 years, then we might actually go over the planetary limits,” she told Reuters. “It is political choice whether we do it or not.”
Under the proposed law, every member state would have to cut its emission rates severely by the year 2050, in a legally binding contract. Emission rates would have to be cut to net zero – a goal climate scientists have been arguing is necessary for years.
Another suggestion put forth by the draft and being put into the commission’s consideration is whether or not the goal to reduce the EU’s total emission rates by 2030 since 1990, when a similar goal was established into law, ought to be constricted further from a 50% cut to a 65% cut.
According to the commission, one large factor that they fear may deter countries from entering into the legally-binding set of agreements put forth by the draft is the cost of the entire endeavour, which they say could cost around 290 billion euros a year. An investment such as this is enough to bring any country to pause and carefully consider the draft, but now, during a time of economic crash and pandemic fear, all ideas regarding agreement to the draft are being held off as proposed by the Czech Republic. Meanwhile, Poland has already refused to make any sorts of commitments toward the draft.
From now until the year 2030, global emission rates have to fall at an average of 7.6% a year if we’re to successfully limit the global warming rise by only 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the United Nations. Any more than this, and scientists predict that the results could hold serious and incredibly dangerous repercussions.
By Patryk Krych | © The World Daily 2020
