{"id":8507,"date":"2024-01-15T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2024-01-15T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:32:22","slug":"g20-green-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2024\/01\/15\/g20-green-league\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 Green League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you see the news of the UK's becoming the first G20 economy to halve its greenhouse gas emissions with the average household using less energy than in the mid-1990s \u2013 even when you factor in imports? \u00a0The UK's output is now below 320 million tonnes per annum \u2013 less than half the 652 million tonnes of our 1970 peak, despite the population increase. \u00a0A recent Climate Change Committee blog appeared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/2023\/11\/26\/joint-statement-from-professor-piers-forster-and-baroness-brown-to-mark-the-15-year-anniversary-of-the-climate-change-committee\/\">claim much of the credit<\/a> for this.<\/p>\n<p>I explored all this via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/dec\/07\/visualised-how-all-of-g20-is-missing-climate-goals-but-some-nations-are-closer-than-others\">Guardian<\/a> \u2013 which took me to the <a href=\"https:\/\/climateactiontracker.org\/methodology\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Climate Action Tracker<\/a> as the data source, and via the Spectator. \u00a0Their respective take on the figures is instructive. \u00a0The Spectator put emphasis on the welcome fall in emissions, with the Guardian stressing how far there is to go if we are to meet Paris obligations. \u00a0There is surely scope for both points of view especially when thinking about schools. \u00a0I found the technical data on the <a href=\"https:\/\/climateactiontracker.org\/methodology\/cat-rating-methodology\/\">Climate Action Tracker<\/a> hard to follow, and suspect it's not meant for mere mortals. \u00a0There is certainly no risk of its getting 'best blog 2024' status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you see the news of the UK's becoming the first G20 economy to halve its greenhouse gas emissions with the average household using less energy than in the mid-1990s \u2013 even when you factor in imports? \u00a0The UK's output...<\/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-8507","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\/8507","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=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}