Liberal Democrats to make Britain zero carbon by 2050

30th April 201519th March 2015 by Jan Oliff

This year the outcome for the General Election in the UK is so wide open that prediction is a fool’s game.

Smaller parties may well hold the keys to who govern’s Britain so it is worth contemplating our votes on the basis of issues that really matter to us.

As you probably know, I am keen on green issues and [effective] solutions. It isn’t a fad that we now have an electric car and do all we can to recycle and up-cycle. And, in my work, ethical and sustainable investing are top of my interests.

So this article caught my eye. Will this persuade me . . .

http://climateactionprogramme.org/news/liberal_democrats_set_to_make_britain_zero_carbon_by_2050

Liberal Democrats are prioritising green issues and the environment in the next election by putting these concerns at the front of our election proposal.

The Lib Dems have set to make plans to end UK’s impact on climate change as an attempt to make Britain zero carbon by 2050 and double their current production of renewable electricity by the next Parliament.

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Ecology : Electric Vehicles : Political notes and more

October 2015

Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://bit.ly/1IOI0jV
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

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