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As I said, I think a lot more needs to be done.
I think the most important thing right now is to build a non-partisan consensus around the need for much stronger policies than are the current EU norm. The UK is actually quite far advanced - we’re on the cusp of phasing out coal entirely; renewable generation overtook fossil generation over the last quarter - and we’ve done it in a way that hasn’t broken the bank (Spain has struggled to pay for its renewable roll-out). But it could do a lot more, and something like the Green New Deal would, I think, help to put us on the right path, while managing to bring a lot of the public onside. And if we can make it work here then it becomes much harder for places like Poland to continue to defend their coal industries in the name of jobs.
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Apologies if the tone was condescending.
So as someone who has worked on energy issues for the last 15 years, do you think we are on track to reduce our global emissions by 50% of 2010 levels by 2030? If not, what do we do?