There is so much politics in this, it's almost impossible to make genuine progress or sense of it.
I think I've mentioned this once before, when working in Asia I would come across whole factories that were built to sell green manufacturing into the EU, so that they get a CE tick of approval. But the real factory doing the bulk of the work was a dark dank and dirty sweatshop down the road that would become a wasteland in the future, that was the EU version of a NIMBY moment. Yet now they will place sanctions on Australia for not doing enough, when all the EU has really done historically is move it's waste offshore!
A friend in the UK is particularly sceptical, his side gig is home farmed free range chicken eggs. Under the EU, he wasn't permitted to sell them locally, roadside or direct to the public, the stores nearby his home had to sell eggs trucked in from Belgium, Netherland or some other eastern block country which had the EU approved green stamp! Ignoring thousands of kilometres of diesel fumes for every tray of course!
When it suits it seems that the rules change!
I think I've mentioned this once before, when working in Asia I would come across whole factories that were built to sell green manufacturing into the EU, so that they get a CE tick of approval. But the real factory doing the bulk of the work was a dark dank and dirty sweatshop down the road that would become a wasteland in the future, that was the EU version of a NIMBY moment. Yet now they will place sanctions on Australia for not doing enough, when all the EU has really done historically is move it's waste offshore!
A friend in the UK is particularly sceptical, his side gig is home farmed free range chicken eggs. Under the EU, he wasn't permitted to sell them locally, roadside or direct to the public, the stores nearby his home had to sell eggs trucked in from Belgium, Netherland or some other eastern block country which had the EU approved green stamp! Ignoring thousands of kilometres of diesel fumes for every tray of course!
When it suits it seems that the rules change!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"