{"id":6319,"date":"2015-05-11T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2015-05-11T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T07:00:38","slug":"ecotricity-goes-into-the-manifesto-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/05\/11\/ecotricity-goes-into-the-manifesto-business\/","title":{"rendered":"ecotricity goes into the manifesto business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotricity.co.uk\">ecotricity<\/a> has\u00a0launched its\u00a02030 vision\/manifesto for the Green\u00a0Britain it\u00a0thinks we should be living in. \u00a0Using\u00a0research and modelling from Cambridge Econometrics, a consultancy, ecotricity sets out what Britain would be like in 2030 if we adopt ambitious targets for emissions reduction, renewables and electric cars. \u00a0It outlines how we can get there. \u00a0The modelling reveals both economic and\u00a0environmental benefit to the country,\u00a0including up to \u00a35bn increase in GDP by adopting electric cars, a saving of almost \u00a38bn on Britain\u2019s annual oil import bill, and \u00a31.25bn in health and\u00a0environmental benefits. \u00a0The\u00a0vision outlines includes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022<em>\u00a0Creating a Minister for Carbon\u00a0\u2013 to set carbon limits across all sectors of the economy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022\u00a0Ensuring Britain\u2019s power generation is 80% renewable by 2030\u00a0\u2013 saving \u00a311.7bn in fossil fuel costs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022\u00a0Implementing \u2018Quantitative Greening\u2019\u00a0\u2013 deploying quantitative easing by the Bank of England directly into the renewables sector<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022\u00a0Ending fossil fuel subsidies\u00a0\u2013 all government support for fossil fuels cut\u00a0off by 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022\u00a0Increasing support for electric cars\u00a0\u2013 including scrapping VAT, helping to ensure all new cars are electric by 2030<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice how little of this seems to depend on any formal educational interventions. \u00a0But it's\u00a0bound to involve\u00a0lots of learning by all sorts of people and organisations, and more than a little social marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ecotricity has\u00a0launched its\u00a02030 vision\/manifesto for the Green\u00a0Britain it\u00a0thinks we should be living in. \u00a0Using\u00a0research and modelling from Cambridge Econometrics, a consultancy, ecotricity sets out what Britain would be like in 2030 if we adopt ambitious targets for emissions reduction, renewables...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}