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26 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The good news: when our old fridge broke down, we bought ourselves a new one with an A+++ energy label (left). Image
The bad news: that label is only valid through 28 February 2021. The next day, that same fridge will have a D label; the new sticker was already included too.

It's the result of 'raising the bar' in EU appliance standards, long overdue. Image
Due to substantial improvements, almost all fridges had A/A+/A++/A+++ labels by now. The new scale should drive further innovation, leading to even lower electricity consumption.
ec.europa.eu/info/energy-cl… Image
As you can see, our new fridge will also start using more electricity from 1 March onwards, jumping from 195 to 234 kWh/year ;)

That's the result of more realistic assumptions. Image
For cars in the EU, the reported fuel efficiency was allowed to drift further and further away from reality for years, showing gains that were never made in practice.
theicct.org/news/real-worl… Image

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28 Dec
Weird story on the front page of @nrc. A year ago, NL govt promised to ensure 5 months supply of medicines by mid-2022. But it hasn't started yet. This year, 1,500 medicines were unavailable, and by now, the average pharmacy spends 17.5 hours/week trying to get hold of those.
That means that around 1,000 Dutch pharmacy employees are now chasing missing medicines, full time.

Reason for shortage? "Long supply lines from Asia; it takes 8 months for an order to arrive in NL." Eight months?!
Reason for not starting to build the stock? "It is still unclear who should pay."

Lack of preparation time? "The decision to build the stock was the result of 6(!) years of intensive discussions between insurers, pharmaceutical companies, wholesale, pharmacies and the Ministry."
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6 Dec
Big walking and cycling demonstration against Dutch govt's plan to spend €1.5 billion to cut down more trees of our centuries old park #amelisweerd, and add a few lanes to highway A27. More traffic, more CO2, more pollution, more noise, and more congestion elsewhere.
This is what was already done to #amelisweerd in the 1980s. Forty years later, in the middle of our growing climate crisis, govt plans to make matters worse, despite opposition by the city of Utrecht, the province, and the majority of the people. Irresponsible.
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5 Dec
Let's not buy the idea that aviation can't go to net-zero emissions by 2050 'because that would make flying too expensive'. Aviation has to go to net-zero just like everything else.
If that'd make flying expensive, so be it. If we want to reduce the costs, the only way is to get started now, e.g. by demanding a steadily growing share of zero-emission jet fuels.
Post-corona, we need to curb the growth of aviation; growth rates of 7%/year make it impossible to achieve net-zero by 2050. The higher cost of jet fuels will help, but airport expansion could be limited as well, with many side benefits.
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4 Dec
The Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy just published our report on the options for combined tenders of offshore wind and hydrogen production! Aim is to optimize the system integration of large amounts of offshore wind energy. rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rap…
Direct link to the report in pdf: rijksoverheid.nl/binaries/rijks… Image
The report itself is in Dutch, but there's an Executive Summary in English. ImageImage
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4 Dec
The UK just ramped up its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2030 to 68% below 1990 levels! Until now it was -53%.
That's another great development in this rapidly developing story (thread):
To be followed by 1,000 pages on how to get to -68% by 2030, next week!
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26 Nov
EU still aiming to upgrade its 2030 climate change target next month. Emission reduction target to be raised from its current -40% to -55%. reuters.com/article/us-cli…
We were at -24% in 2019, so the -55% target means a reduction of 40% between 2019 and 2030:
From an index value of 76 to 45.

Thx for asking, @SonyKapoor !
So after achieving a 24% reduction in 29 years (benchmark is 1990), wel now have to 40% in 11 years.
Like most of the world, we've been dragging our feet, with grave consequences to climate. This is now what needs to be done. And it can be done.
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