{"id":400,"date":"2012-12-03T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2013-08-05T14:10:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T14:10:19","slug":"aviation-and-shipping-privileged-again-uk-delays-decision-to-act-on-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/aviation-and-shipping-privileged-again-uk-delays-decision-to-act-on-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviation and shipping privileged \u2013 again? UK delays decision to act on emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 2012 \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Aviation-and-shipping-privileged-\u2013-again-UK-delays-decision-to-act-on-emissions.pdf\">Aviation and shipping privileged \u2013 again? UK delays decision to act on emissions<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Tyndall Briefing Note 47<br \/>\n<\/strong>Just a week on from the\u00a0Prime Minister publicly declaring his\u00a0<em>\u201cGovernment has the most incredibly green set of energy policies&#8221;<\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>DECC chooses to continue ignoring emissions from aviation and shipping. This note illustrates how in 2012 the government a)\u00a0refused to set a 2030 \u2018decarbonisation\u2019 target for electricity generation; b) gave\u00a0a green-light to shale gas exploitation (<em>a high carbon fossil fuel comprising ~75% carbon); c)\u00a0<\/em>proposed\u00a0up to 37GW of new gas-fired power stations; and d) reversed\u00a0the decision to rule out a third runway at Heathrow. This\u00a0note argues such\u00a0decisions\u00a0cannot be reconciled\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0PM&#8217;s claim to lead the\u00a0<em>&#8220;greenest government ever&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 2012 \u00a0Aviation and shipping privileged \u2013 again? UK delays decision to act on emissions\u00a0&#8211; Tyndall Briefing Note 47 Just a week on from the\u00a0Prime Minister publicly declaring his\u00a0\u201cGovernment has the most incredibly green set of energy policies&#8221;,\u00a0DECC chooses to continue ignoring emissions from aviation and shipping. This note illustrates how in 2012 the government a)\u00a0refused to set a 2030 \u2018decarbonisation\u2019 target for electricity generation; b) gave\u00a0a green-light to shale gas exploitation (a high carbon fossil fuel comprising ~75% carbon); c)\u00a0proposed\u00a0up to 37GW of new gas-fired power stations; and d) reversed\u00a0the decision to rule out a third runway at Heathrow.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[5,6,21],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}