{"id":8295,"date":"2023-04-07T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2023-04-07T17:34:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:34:51","slug":"careful-crime-heat-pumps-net-zero-and-german-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2023\/04\/07\/careful-crime-heat-pumps-net-zero-and-german-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Careful Crime, Heat Pumps, Net Zero and German Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2018, a survey of\u00a02,143\u00a0people by YouGov revealed that 27% \u00a0of them admit to \u201ccareful littering<\/a>\u201d such as leaving drinks cans or coffee cups on window ledges rather than on the ground as usual. \u00a0A campaign was duly launched by Keep Britain Untidy to remind the public that this is still littering. \u00a0A series of posters and floor displays were developed\u00a0to tackle the moment when people might carefully place litter on the ground or a surface before walking away and leaving it. \u00a0Afterwards, of the 1,072 people subsequently surveyed in the trial areas, nearly two-thirds (63%) said the campaign would stop them leaving litter behind again. \u00a0It didn\u2019t of course.<\/p>\n

Have you installed a new heat pump in the last year or so. \u00a0Probably not as the UK is bottom of a long list of implementers with only 2% of heating installations being heat pumps whereas it was 98% in Norway and even France was 32% (2021 data). \u00a0 Our 2021 target was 600,000 but we built 55,000. \u00a0Why are we so useless at this sort of thing. \u00a0Maybe putting the reliably useless Ed Milliband in charge would be better. \u00a0That is a sentence I never thought I\u2019d write.<\/p>\n

According to the \u2018net zero tracker\u2019 published by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit<\/a>, 17 countries have agreed legislation for net zero commitments.\u00a0A further 45 have achieving net zero written into policy, 14 have made declarations or pledges towards a net zero target and 43 have talked about such a target. \u00a0The detail is here<\/a>.\u00a0The UK is on this list of 119 countries, of course, but China and the US, which account for 45% of global emissions between them, are not.<\/p>\n

If the UK and, say, Germany are anything to go by, there is little to indicate that these goals will be reached even in these outwardly-committed nations. \u00a0Indeed, the German car industry has just persuaded the German state to wreck the EU Commission's plans to ban the manufacture of all cars with internal combustion engines. The EU still plans to stop the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035 but will now permit so called e-fuel vehicles to be manufactured, sold and driven. \u00a0So, Petrol Heads 10 \u2013 0 EU. According to research conducted in March, only 25% of Germans supported the EU\u2019s plan to ban combustion engines in cars with 67% actively opposing it. \u00a0Another example of a progressive government being too far ahead of public opinion.<\/p>\n

If the EU can't manage it, what price the world? \u00a0The UK government still says it will ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030 as part of plans to help the UK meet its goal of net zero by 2050. \u00a0But will the EU retreat force a change of mind?<\/p>\n

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