No Result
View All Result
Friday, March 5, 2021
Chinese (Simplified)EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapanesePortugueseRussianSpanish
Near future
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Medicine
  • Society
  • Environment
  • Spazio
  • Transportation
  • Weather
  • concepts
  • H+
Near future
No Result
View All Result

Petrol and diesel banned for 2035: the UK after Brexit accelerates on ecology

The deadline previously set in 2040 is about to be revised 5 years in advance, in 2035. The UK post Brexit wants to be much greener.

Gianluca Riccio di Gianluca Riccio
February 3 2020
in Environment
Send to FacebookPin on PinterestSend on TwitterSend on Whatsappon Linkedin

The sale of petrol and diesel cars will be banned five years ahead of schedule, under the pressure of climate change. It is one of the points of a new “green” course for England, which will be revealed by Boris Johnson.

The government announced back in 2017, with Theresa May, that it would impose a ban on diesel and gasoline cars from 2040 as part of an effort to combat air pollution. The new Prime Minister is speeding up plans to implement the ban as early as 2035.

The idea was first discussed by Grant Shapps, the transport secretary. It was last October when he indicated that 2035 was a goal he wanted to aim for.

Maybe you are also interested

Bill Gates and the Harvard Climate Project. Who said "Chemtrails"?

First study on the mutation of Covid in the UK: good and bad news

Robot soldiers could make up a quarter of the UK army by 2030

UK government study: Covid-19, asymptomatic lose antibodies first

"The government advisory committee on climate change has said that 2035 is a date we should aim for"he said at his party's Conservative conference.

"We need to test these arguments and work in partnership with industry to examine how to proceed."

Ban on petrol and diesel in 2040? Little ambitious.

The report of a joint commission as early as 2018 criticized the 2040 target as lacking "sufficient ambitions" and urged to bring the deadline forward.

"We welcome the government's commitment to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2040. However, this target lacks sufficient ambition," reads in the report. "It is too distant to produce a change in industry and local government planning and falls far behind similar commitments by other countries."

Johnson made clear his commitment to the environment, having promised a “clean energy revolution” last year to be achieved using “the power of science, innovation e of technology”As a means of addressing climate change. A milestone to be achieved even 5 years earlier, in 2035.

Air pollution causes around 40.000 premature deaths a year in the UK and is linked to a variety of health problems - from childhood illness to heart disease.

Tomorrow Boris Johnson will set out his government's environmental ambitions ahead of COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in November in the UK. It is still unclear whether there will already be an announcement to end the use of gasoline and diesel by 2035 as part of this plan.

The announcement will come downstream of a small earthquake, with removal by former energy minister and designated head of COP 26 Claire Perry O'Neil. Johnson informed the former Tory congressman of his removal effective immediately. He leaves the position vacant just 10 months before the conference in Glasgow.

A government minister is expected to take on the role, although no names have yet been announced.

Let's wait and see if the Brexit euphoria blows wind also on the "green" sails of the United Kingdom.

tags: Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European UnionClimate ChangeEnglandUK
Previous post

A “Trojan” nanoparticle clears the arteries of plaque

Next article

Ancient cloned 3D printing tools save cultural heritage

Gianluca Riccio

Gianluca Riccio

Gianluca Riccio, born in 1975, is the creative director of an advertising agency, copywriter and journalist. He is affiliated with Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H +, Network of Italian Transhumanists. Since 2006 he directs Futuroprossimo.it, the Italian resource of Futurology.

Maybe you are also interested in:

pesticides
Environment

Pesticide "ghosts" haunt organic crops for decades

Confirmed the first space hurricane on the North Pole
Environment

Confirmed the first space hurricane on the North Pole

Electric car is better than the traditional one
Environment

For the planet, the electric car is better than the traditional car, isn't it?

Next article
Ancient cloned 3D printing tools save cultural heritage

Ancient cloned 3D printing tools save cultural heritage

spot superbowl electric cars

At SuperBowl the stars of the commercials were electric cars

Leave a comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

Collaborate!

We are open to visions about the future. Submit an article, disclose the results of a search or scientific discoveries, shows points of view on a theme, tells about a change.

Contact us
The last
  • Wolverine, Alphabet's secret project to create superhuman hearingMarch 4 2021
    Alphabet's most pioneering company secretly develops a device that delivers superhuman and selective hearing. After the first rumors, we await developments.
  • Pesticide "ghosts" haunt organic crops for decadesMarch 4 2021
    As in a Dickens story, "the ghost of past pesticides" continues to haunt the fields, even those of organic farming.
  • An implant in the inner ear restores balance to those suffering from vertigoMarch 3 2021
    The modification of an existing implant allows a Johns Hopkins team to counteract vertigo in those suffering from bilateral vestibular hypofunction.

Most read of the week

  • Levitating plastic discs

    Scientists levitate a plastic disc using only light

    62 shares
    Share 24 Tweet 15
  • M1, the huge 165-inch MicroLED TV vanishes into thin air when turned off

    60 shares
    Share 24 Tweet 15
  • World population growth will stop after centuries

    3128 shares
    Share 1251 Tweet 782
  • V90 Villa Edition, camper with terrace on the second floor

    225 shares
    Share 90 Tweet 56

Futuroprossimo.it is an Italian resource of futurology opened since 2006: every day news about the near future. Scientific discoveries, medical research, prototypes, concepts and predictions about the future for free.

Tag

Environment Architecture Communication concepts Advice Energy Events Gadgets The future of yesterday The newspaper of tomorrow Medicine Military Weather Robotica Society Spazio Technology transhumanism Transportation Video

Categories

The author

Gianluca Riccio, copywriter and journalist - Born in 1975, he is the creative director of an advertising agency, he is affiliated with the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H +, Network of Italian Transhumanists.

Collaborate! Are you interested in writing a post on Futuroprossimo? Click here for contacts.

Home / Author / IDEA / archive / Promo on FP

© 2020 Futuroprossimo - Tailored by Be Here

© 2020 Futuroprossimo - Tailored by Be Here

  • Home
  • Contact
  • archive
  • Technology
  • Medicine
  • Transportation
  • Weather
  • Society
  • Environment
  • transhumanism

© 2019 Futuroprossimo - Tailored by To be here

This site uses cookies. By continuing to read it, you consent to their use.