Because I know most people, including me, can’t be bothered reading and everyone needs an executive summary, here, I suspect is what is behind Starmer setting out the UK’s new emissions reduction target at COP29 in Baku shortly.

I’ve posted about this before here..

C40 Cities

Here is a link to their website – have a read if you like ….

And here is the document resource page from which I have cut and pasted the targets (referred to in the paper) below.

2030 targets

Food: Consumption interventions

16 kg of meat per person per year (progressive)

0 kg meat consumption (ambitious)

90 kg dairy consumption (milk or derivative equivalent) per person per year (progressive)

0 kg dairy consumption (milk or derivative equivalent) per person per year (ambitious)

Clothing and textiles: consumption interventions

8 new clothing items per person per year (progressive)

3 new clothing items per person per year (ambitious)

Private transport: consumption interventions

190 vehicles per 1,000 people (progressive)

0 private vehicles (ambitious)

Aviation: consumption intervention

1 short–haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 2 years per person (progressive)

1 short–haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person (ambitious)

Welcome to your “brave new world”

#netzero madness!