{"id":262708,"date":"2023-06-18T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262708"},"modified":"2023-06-18T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T12:55:21","slug":"peak-green-in-the-west-what-it-means-for-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262708","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPeak Green\u201d In The West: What It Means For The East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tilak Doshi<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I analyze energy economics and related public policy issues.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 2022\/01\/31: Protesters hold placards calling for an end to fuel poverty and … [+]SOPA IMAGES\/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent political events on both the EU and the US signal \u201cpeak green\u201d. Unlike \u201cpeak oil<\/a>\u201d whose time never seems to come despite many earlier confident predictions, peak green seems to be happening now, in real time. What precisely is peak green? The beginning of the end of a period of ever-expanding and costly climate change regulations on businesses and households is as good a definition as any. There has been a succession of setbacks to the green cause on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To policy makers in the developing countries of the East, representing some 7 of the world\u2019s 8 billion people, these policy challenges faced by Western governments committed to the radical climate agenda present a unique opportunity. Developing countries now have a chance to help establish a new world order more amenable to their legitimate ambitions for rapid economic development and better living standards for their citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the Green Movement Peaking in Europe?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A short list of key political events that suggest \u201cpeak green\u201d, in no order of importance, would include the following. In early March, to the great consternation of the EV lobby, the EU\u00a0decided<\/a>\u00a0to allow the sale of internal combustion engine cars using hydrogen-derived \u201ce-fuels\u201d technology (itself\u00a0unproven at scale and highly expensive<\/a>) beyond 2035 despite earlier plans for a complete eurozone ban. This followed strong objections by the German and Italian governments who were responding to their powerful automotive industry interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-March, Dutch voters went to polls and put the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) into the lead, ahead of the governing party, in the Senate, redefining the country\u2019s political landscape<\/a>. It put on hold, for the present at least, the government\u2019s plans to decimate the Dutch agricultural industry, the world\u2019s 2nd<\/sup> largest exporter, in pursuit of yet another environmental hobgoblin. This time, it is the nitrogen fertilizers which emit nitrous oxide (N2<\/sub>O), a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But nothing could be more clearly indicative of a \u201cpeak green\u201d mood among moderate European politicians than\u00a0Macron\u2019s call<\/a>\u00a0last month for a \u201cpause\u201d on more climate regulations. In a speech to those assembled at an aluminium factory in Dunkirk, he\u00a0said<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI prefer factories that respect our European standards, which are the best, rather than those who still want to add standards and always more \u2013 but without having any more factories\u2026we have already passed a lot of regulations at the European level, more than our neighbours\u2026Now we have to execute not make new rule changes, because otherwise we will lose all the players.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unsurprisingly, Macron\u2019s speech triggered outrage among European Greens and leftist politicians. One French MEP\u00a0remarked<\/a>: \u201cMacron now takes up the same speech, word for word, as the European Right and far-Right, who want to kill the implementation of the rest of the European climate package.\u201d Even Ursula von der Leyen \u2014 president of the European Commission and champion of Europe\u2019s Green Deal objectives of \u201cclimate neutrality\u201d by 2050 \u2014\u00a0conceded<\/a>\u00a0in response to Macron\u2019s call that lawmakers needed to consider the \u201cabsorptive capacity\u201d of states across the EU faced with reams of new climate regulations issued by Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where It All Started<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 1985, Joschka Fischer<\/a>, without a tie and wearing sneakers, was sworn in as minister of energy and environment in Germany\u2019s state of Hesse. A radical from the left-wing student generation of \u201968, Fischer served as the foreign minister and as the vice-chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schr\u00f6der from 1998 to 2005. Fischer was a leading figure in the German Greens party since the 1970s and the party grew from strength to strength. The party attained its zenith as part of the current Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s ruling coalition. Economy Minister and Green party leader Robert Habeck seemed unstoppable, leading in popularity polls through the spring and summer of 2022. Habeck had made no secret of his ambition<\/a> to lead his Green party to victory in the 2025 general election and become Germany’s next leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But much has changed in recent weeks. The latest release from the DeutschlandTrend<\/a> monthly survey, conducted on June 2nd<\/sup>, measured voter support for Alternative for Germany (Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland, AfD) at 18%, putting it on a par with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats. Norbert Roettgen, a senior lawmaker for the main opposition Christian Democrats, described<\/a> the poll as “a disaster” and “an alarm signal for all parties in the centre\u201d. Under Germany\u2019s coalition politics and system of proportional representation, the AfD\u2019s popularity casts doubt on the ruling alliance\u2019s mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A YouGov poll<\/a> published one week later (June 9th<\/sup>) found that 20% of German voters would give their vote to the AfD, making it the second-strongest party behind the centre-right CDU (28%) and ahead of Scholz\u2019s SPD (19%). The resurgence of AfD, a party inevitably dubbed \u201cfar right\u201d by the mainstream media, has been primarily at the expense of the Greens which have been sent into free fall with political scandals<\/a> and increasingly burdensome climate change policies. While the latter have been a fixture in Germany\u2019s policy landscape over the past two decades, the furore over recently announced plans<\/a> by the Greens to ban new gas heating devices beginning next year in favour of expensive heat pumps has proven to be the proverbial straw that broke the camel\u2019s back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 25th<\/sup>, Lord Frost gave the annual GWPF lecture<\/a> on Europe \u201cgetting dark\u201d, referring to the EU sinking into \u201cmiserabilism, degrowth, and economic decline\u201d at the altar of the proclaimed \u201cclimate emergency.\u201d On the same day, it was reported that the German economy had entered into recession (defined as two quarters of negative growth). On June 8th<\/sup>, Eurostat<\/a> reported that the EU as a whole was also in recession. With Europe reaping the boomeranging effects<\/a> of sanctions on imports of Russian energy, leading to surging energy and electricity prices, inflation and recession, the Green movement in Europe is now in eclipse. Parties opposed to the unconstrained green climate agenda are now in governing coalitions in Finland<\/a>, Sweden<\/a> and Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in the USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the Atlantic, there are few signs that the \u201cwhole of government<\/a>\u201d push by the Biden administration for net zero emission targets by 2050 is being seriously challenged. In August, it passed the euphemistically named Inflation Reduction Act, allocating a tsunami of subsidies and tax credits for pet green projects including EVs, renewable energy and battery technologies. Hailed<\/a> by some as the \u201cmost important climate action in US history\u201d, the Congressional Budget Office forecasts the costs of the IRA at some $390 billion over the decade 2022-31. The US Congress\u2019 Ways and Means Committee<\/a> however suggests that the real costs is likely to be triple the CBO forecast, at $1.2 trillion, given the uncapped tax credits and loose credit conditions in the legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the local level, there is an ongoing backlash in rural America against the encroachment of large wind and solar projects. Robert Bryce<\/a> has been reporting on rural opposition to renewable projects in rural USA for over a decade and has maintained the Renewable Rejection Database since 2015. These rejections by local communities are at odds against the hope that the $127 billion appropriated for renewable power under the IRA will lead to a massive surge of new solar and wind projects. Land-use conflicts have hindered the growth of land-intensive renewable energy projects \u2014 both in the U.S. and Europe \u2014 for years. And as more projects get proposed, more rural communities are objecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the more frontal challenge to the juggernaut of the climate industrial complex<\/a> in the US has been the move by the attorneys-general in Republican states against the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (\u201cESG\u201d) investment strategies by the corporate sector. In January, twenty-one state attorneys-general released a letter<\/a> to the two largest proxy advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Company, which dominate the US proxy advisory market in the US. They hold great leverage over how institutional shareholders vote on company resolutions across the country. In the letter, the attorneys-general warned of possible violations of both fiduciary duty and anti-trust laws. Proxy advisors could have violated their legal and contractual duties to their clients by discriminating against fossil fuels and by colluding with each other in this sector-wise discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the face of potential litigation on fiduciary duty and anti-trust grounds, powerful ESG-pushers forcing behavioural change<\/a> in the corporate sector such as BlackRock\u2019sBLK<\/a> -1.2%<\/a> CEO Larry Fink have now mellowed out<\/a>. As the self-styled prophet of the business world<\/a>, he had implicitly warned<\/a> in his letter to CEOs in 2020 of his vote against corporate directors and management executives who didn\u2019t diligently report on \u201cplans to achieve net zero by 2050\u201d. Running the world\u2019s largest investment fund with $8.5 trillion assets under management, he now modestly admits that \u201cit is for governments to make policy and enact legislation, and not for companies including asset managers to be the environmental police\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the ESG backlash in the U.S., at least seven members (including five of the eight founding signatories) of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance setup by U.N. climate envoy Mark Carney have now left the group<\/a>. Europe\u2019s largest insurers such as AXA, Allianz, Swiss Re, Munich Re, Zurich Insurance and Hannover left the group under threat of anti-trust litigation. In September, major Wall Street banks threatened<\/a> to leave the net zero financial alliance, also founded by Mr. Carney, over legal risks. Morgan StanleyMS<\/a> -1.1%<\/a>, JPMorgan and Bank of AmericaBAC<\/a> -0.6%<\/a> are among the leading banks \u201cweighing an exit as they fear being sued over the alliance’s stringent decarbonisation commitments\u201d. The green movement in the US shows signs of peaking at least with respect to the momentum achieved by its ESG Trojan horse<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developing Countries: Where Do They Stand?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the earliest UN negotiations starting in 1992 at the Rio de Janeiro \u201cEarth Summit\u201d under the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), leading developing countries such as China, India, Brazil and South Africa adopted the \u2018Third World\u2019 position. Developing countries carried “common but differentiated responsibilities<\/a>“. This meant that the developed countries (primarily the West, but also its allies including industrialized Japan and South Korea) adopted binding commitments to reduce carbon emissions by specified amounts over a specified period (allegedly dictated by \u201cthe science<\/a>\u201d). The developing countries not only did not have any binding policy commitments but were expected to receive considerable support in \u201cclimate finance\u201d to assist mitigating and adapting to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preparatory talks concluding this week in Bonn for this year\u2019s COP28 climate summit to be held in the United Arab Emirates was \u201cconsumed by a power struggle\u201d according to a Politico report<\/a>. In veiled comments critical of the UAEUAE<\/a> +1%<\/a>, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said<\/a> on Thursday that countries must start phasing out oil, coal and gas. He demanded that fossil fuel companies “cease and desist” measures that aim to hobble progress on the issue. The UAE, it should be noted, is the world\u2019s 7th largest oil producer and has ambitious expansion plans<\/a> for its oil and gas sector. As host to COP28, it will try to balance the overheated rhetoric of the Western climate zealots with the bottom line: the world, whatever the West and its allies desire, will be using fossil fuels for decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Africa\u2019s top energy official, Amani Abou-Zeid, the African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, said<\/a> at last year\u2019s COP27 summit held at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt that African countries advocate \u201ca common energy position that sees fossil fuels as necessary to expanding economies and electricity access\u201d. African countries, like their counterparts in Asia and Latin America, will not be thwarted<\/a> in their climb up the very same energy ladder<\/a> from wood and coal to refined oil and natural gas that the West used in its ascent to human betterment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carbon imperialism<\/a>, the corollary of the climate alarmist Net Zero movements that have reigned in Western capitals over the past three decades, has long been challenged by the developing countries. But now, citizens of the Western metropoles are increasingly aligning with their counterparts in the East, united against Green ideology and its pernicious effects on human flourishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Tilak Doshi<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have worked in the oil and gas sector as an economist in both private industry and in think tanks, in Asia, the Middle East and the US over the past… Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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