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Chapter 6 : Corruption in the “Carbon World”

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as a success , this is not the case with the UK having committed itself to legally binding
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reductions but with China, India, Brazil, Russia , USA and 80 others giving only vague
“undertakings”. This means that around 90 countries have no obligations whatsoever.

China made a commitment that by 2020 it will reduce emissions relative to economic growth by 40 to 45% based
on its 2005 levels. This may all sound fine and dandy if you are the sort of person who believes in Father
Christmas but it is a totally worthless in reality. China's emissions are currently nine times those of the UK’s.
Assuming China maintains an economic growth rate of around 10%, its additional carbon dioxide emissions to
2020 would be over 22,697,533,486 tonnes. This rise is 50 times greater than the UK’s forecast reductions over the
same period.

American was right: Kyoto was a dead donkey.

5.6 The UK’s Current Position
5.6.1 The Climate Change Act
The Labour Government passed this Act in November 2008 with the objectives of “avoiding
dangerous climate change in an economically sound way by among other things "demonstrating
the U.K.'s leadership (so as) to increase the chances of a binding international emissions
reduction agreement that would stabilise concentrations”. The UK is the first, and believed to be
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the only, country to unilaterally enter into legally binding targets . Neither the Copenhagen nor
Cancun delegates were impressed by UK’s self‐flagellation and self‐appointed “leadership” but
this still did not change its nutty idea that others will follow by example. When will the penny
drop?

The Act’s objectives are to be achieved by:

 Setting ambitious targets
 Taking powers to achieve them
 Strengthening the institutional framework
 Enhancing the UKs ability to adapt
 Establishing accountability

One of the purposes of the Act, which is pure “spin”, is illuminated in its “Impact Assessment” in
the section dealing with plastic bags issued by supermarkets:

"The primary driver for measures to limit bag distribution, however, is the importance this has in public opinion as
a measure of the government’s seriousness about this and other environmental issues. Quantifying this trust
effect in impact assessment is not straightforward”

40 It was for Chris Huhne who contrived to extend his visit to avoid having to vote on students’ loans
41 The BRIC countries
42 Whatever these mean in practice, they are another example of self‐flagellation

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