Comments by "Halfdan Ingolfsson" (@Halli50) on "DW Planet A" channel.

  1. Never mind getting the worst historical polluters (us, the developed nations) paying for damages already and inexorably underway. Just getting the worst polluters to genuinely TRY to stop polluting would be a major first step, a step too few nations seem willing to even try taking. The whole issue is likely to be drowned in pointless arguments over whether huge nations that have spewed out the vast majority of pollution for the past 2 centuries are to blame, or whether to focus on the worst "current" offenders, i.e. rather small nations that pollute more than others now pr. person, but whose total pollution is insignificant in the grander scheme of things. Countries like New Zealand, Iceland and Greenland may have a significant CO2 footprint pr. person but, being small, even tiny nations in large territories, our footprint per area of territory is minuscule! A better frame of reference is called for. How about a "CO2 pollution pr. person pr. distance traveled"? A poor African that has to walk wherever he/she goes is definitely not polluting as much as an overweight 'Murican, traveling alone in his/her 250hp, 2.5ton truck.
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  2. Hydrogen "fuel" production is a no-brainer for SOME countries. My country, Iceland, has an abundance of clean electrical energy (hydroelectric/geothermal), a large chunk of which is currently used to smelt aluminum, which apparently is quite polluting, CO2-wise. By phasing out these smelteries when their current energy contacts expire, we can use the then-available energy to produce hydrogen for our transport sector, especially for our fishing and shipping fleet - and to power non-polluting data farms (our climate is cool and our energy is clean).
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