{"id":317,"date":"2014-06-03T18:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/?p=317"},"modified":"2014-07-30T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:33:38","slug":"chart-of-the-week-obamas-lacklustre-breakthrough-on-emissions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"3rd June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Chart of the week: Obama&#8217;s lacklustre breakthrough on emissions<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; in contrast to the European Commissions proposal to cut emissions by 40% compared to 1990, the US proposes to only increase emissions by 3%<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>by Georg Zachmann on 3rd June 2014<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/obama.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-170 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/obama-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"obama\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/obama-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/zachmann.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/obama.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The US proposal on reducing emissions from coal fired plants by 30% compared to 2005 will limit the increase in total greenhouse gas emissions to only 3 percent compared to 1990, while they are currently already 5 percent above that level. By way of contrast, the European Commission proposes to cut emissions by 2030 by 40 percent in the same period.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"left: -99999px; position: absolute;\">Assistance by Sergiy Golovin is gratefully acknowledged. | Read more at Bruegel http:\/\/www.bruegel.org\/nc\/blog\/detail\/article\/1348-chart-of-the-week-obamas-lacklustre-breakthrough-on-emissions\/<\/div>\r\n<p><em>\u00a0Assistance by Sergiy Golovin is gratefully acknowledged.<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chart of the week: Obama&#8217;s lacklustre breakthrough on emissions &#8211; in contrast to the European Commissions proposal to cut emissions by 40% compared to 1990, the US proposes to only increase emissions by 3% by Georg Zachmann on 3rd June 2014 The US proposal on reducing emissions from coal fired plants by 30% compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blogposts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zachmann.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}