“So we’re cool now, guys, right? No more messy, unfortunate, noisy demonstrations?”
isn’t the bigger story today the target for 90% cuts in emissions by 2040? While I agree on the edges you have green measures that are being scaled back, the direction of travel remains amazingly ambitious. I think “rolling back” is a bit too strong.
— Stanley Pignal (@spignal) February 6, 2024
I mean, seriously. Who wouldn’t trust her and her good intentions, being every bit the Bond villain the rest of the German Greens are?
Yeah. About that.
One of the items von der Leyen announced this morning in her speech to the European Parliament was the withdrawal of the proposed Sustainable Use Regulation (SUR). This pesticide use control measure met with widespread controversy when it was introduced in 2022. Last year it didn’t survive a vote by the parliament for implementation because of protests from a…
