Era of Global Boiling Has Arrived, UN Chief Says

Re:Era of Global Boiling Has Arrived, UN Chief Says by soligern on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:36PM (#36914853)

No, tariffs should not be equitable. If anything there should be a certain threshold of the development status of a country above which the tariffs should apply. It’s fair as well, the vast majority of greenhouse emissions up to this point have been from countries that are currently developed.

The rest of the world will follow because renewable energy is beyond/at the cusp of being cheaper than fossil fuels and no one is interested in maintaining a reliance on oil from the Middle East, Russia and Northern Europe.

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Re:Era of Global Boiling Has Arrived, UN Chief Says by brutusborn on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:12PM (#36916489)

Developed countries aren’t going to fund the transition in poor countries. And if we don’t include them a tariff like system, they will have no incentive to decarbonise.

I’d love renewables to be cheapest, but if you include storage and demolition of old panels/wind turbines then this isn’t the case. There’s a reason coal/gas plants are still being built. If it was actually cheaper to go renewable, it would be the only power source we see.

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