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Italy's Meloni warns EU green policies risk 'industrial desertification' (www.reuters.com)

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geteilt von: https://lemm.ee/post/64287441

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64276454

Following heavy lobbying, the European Commission proposed allowing automakers to meet the targets based on their average emissions over the period 2025-2027, rather than just this year.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

as opposed to factories producing desertification desertification

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As if outsourcing most manufacturing to China, helped by neoliberal policies, hadn't resulted in that already.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Clearly a mistake to focus con electrification where we don't control the supply chain. Better to keep pumping oil where we... * checks notes *... Yeah, well, end of the press conference, nothing to see here.

I don't say that biofuels don't have a reason to exist but I have a feeling they are mentioned just to say something "alternative" to electrification