Study: Most 'climate' policies don't help reduce emissions
Only 63 out of 1,500 analyzed practices made a difference
By
Nick Pope, Daily Caller News Foundation
September 2, 2024
Only a small percentage of climate policies instituted globally have actually resulted in any significant emissions reductions, according to a study published earlier in August in Science, a respected scientific publication.
The new study, titled "Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades," used artificial intelligence to assess 1,500 different climate policies pursued across 41 nations between 1998 and 2022, aiming to determine which types of policies have prompted significant emissions cuts. The study's analysis found that only 63 of these policies constituted "successful policy interventions," meaning that just 4% of the measures evaluated in the study's sample effectively reduced emissions.
"Across four sectors, 41 countries, and 2 decades, we found 63 successful policy interventions with large effects that reduced total emissions between 0.6 and 1.8 [billion metric tons] of [carbon dioxide]," the study states. Moreover, most of the emissions cuts observed in the study were the result of two or more policies having a combined effect.
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