{"id":251839,"date":"2023-04-08T18:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=251839"},"modified":"2023-04-08T18:26:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T16:26:38","slug":"key-net-zero-climate-schemes-likely-to-fail-government-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=251839","title":{"rendered":"Key net zero climate schemes likely to fail, government told"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 5, 2023 by\u00a0oldbrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like many other countries, they\u2019ve always been playing in the pie-in-the-sky league on climate policy, built on vague untestable conjectures and unreliable climate models.<\/em>
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Key climate schemes trumpeted as part of the government\u2019s net zero strategy are likely to fail, ministers were told before last week\u2019s \u201cgreen day\u201d announcements, says The Times (via No2NuclearPower)<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A leaked document by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) reveals that officials told ministers they were not confident that key policies announced on Thursday \u2014 including tree planting, peat restoration and recycling targets \u2014 were realistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ten-page advisory document \u2014 marked \u201cnot public facing\u201d \u2014 was produced on February 20 for Grant Shapps, the energy security and net zero secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It assessed the \u201cdelivery risk\u201d and \u201cdelivery confidence\u201d of each of the net zero measures proposed by Defra, which is run by Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Coffey, the environment secretary. Each was assessed with a traffic-light scale of green, amber and red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of 44 policies, 21 were marked red or red\/amber, indicating they will be hard to achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These policies encompass about 85 per cent of Defra\u2019s proposed emissions savings, indicating officials expect to fall well short of what they claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A further 18 policies were marked as amber or amber\/green, and only five were marked green, two of which disappeared from the final \u201ccarbon budget delivery plan\u201d document published on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defra has long been warned it has not pulled its weight when it comes to cutting carbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continued here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many other countries, they\u2019ve always been playing in the pie-in-the-sky league on climate policy, built on vague untestable conjectures and unreliable climate models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":251843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818153,691818154],"class_list":["post-251839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-models","tag-net-zero","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C1299&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-13vV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":264549,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264549","url_meta":{"origin":251839,"position":0},"title":"Climate models behind Net Zero policies are \u2018thoroughly\u00a0flawed\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/29\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Crude corrections\u00a0hide unrealistic physics.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate models\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate models","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-models"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Climate-models-45.jpeg?fit=1200%2C814&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Climate-models-45.jpeg?fit=1200%2C814&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Climate-models-45.jpeg?fit=1200%2C814&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Climate-models-45.jpeg?fit=1200%2C814&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Climate-models-45.jpeg?fit=1200%2C814&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":263384,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263384","url_meta":{"origin":251839,"position":1},"title":"Wrong, CNN, Attribution Groups Prove Nothing About Extreme Weather and Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/22\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent article on CNN relies on the opinion of climate attribution groups, claiming that these groups are able to calculate exactly how much impact climate change has had on various weather events. 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