The European Union (EU) is talking climate policy as it relates to climate change much more seriously as a community than any one else in the world.

But first an assessment of how the COVID situation has changed attitudes in the EU. (as far as I aware no similar study has been done for the US ...)







The European Green Deal: Note the introduction of the word Law.















But what does "fight climate change" really mean? What the individual can do is to reduce their consumption and particulat the concumption of "climate unfriendly" products, if such products can be scentifically identified.

An interesting real world situation involving direct vs indirect emissions. Indirect GHG emissions are emissions that are a consequence of the activities that occur at other locations and are no longer under the control of the entity that was the source of direct emissions. The production and use of aluminum is a good example:

Hence some kind of carbon tax needs to be implement for both initial production and end usage (by individuals or by corporations, etc). Such a structure is unlikely to happen in most of the world, but might happen in the EUG.

The plan to get to 5-10% of 2005 Emissions throughout various sectors. This is ambitious. Note the evolution of the power sector.







But, wide spread variance in individual countries abilities to meet many of the targets.







But in the real world, progess for the EU is substantially better than for the US. Note the combined population of the EU-27 is about 450 million.



The global situation as of 2020,





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