Don't You Love It When A Plan Comes Together?

Photo by Andrew Dunn via Wikimedia Commons

By now, you've probably seen the UK government's "low carbon transition plan" - their roadmap for how to meet their carbon reduction targets. (The Guardian has a quick summary of the main points here).

In the main, it's welcome. It doesn't do everything I would want, and it does some things I don't want. Plus, there's a sodding great "Coming Soon" sign over the railway section.

But in the main, it's the start of a snowball. The quicker we get started, and the more we do, the less frightening decarbonising will seem to the general population. So it is to be welcome.

Unfortunately, it's purely coincidence that on the same day the M4 Relief Road was scrapped. It would have been a powerful statement of intent if the plans were ripped up because they would have contributed too many emissions.