{"id":188,"date":"2016-11-11T18:40:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T23:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=188"},"modified":"2016-11-11T18:40:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T23:40:02","slug":"from-the-web-dutch-parliament-votes-to-shut-down-all-of-the-countrys-coal-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2016\/11\/11\/from-the-web-dutch-parliament-votes-to-shut-down-all-of-the-countrys-coal-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Dutch parliament votes to shut down all of the country\u2019s coal plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch parliament voted recently\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/sep\/23\/dutch-parliament-votes-to-close-down-countrys-coal-industry\">shutter the nation\u2019s coal industry<\/a>\u00a0in order to achieve a 55-percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. The vote, which is not yet binding, would require shutting down the five coal power plants currently operating in the Netherlands, three of which just came online in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-189\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-3.09.34-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-10-at-3-09-34-am\" width=\"976\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-3.09.34-AM.png 976w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-3.09.34-AM-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-3.09.34-AM-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-3.09.34-AM-500x296.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Slashing CO2 emissions by 55 percent would bring the country\u2019s emissions in line with the targets set by the\u00a0<strong>Paris climate deal<\/strong>\u00a0last December, and set a strong precedent among European nations for policies to slow the effects of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/tag\/climate-change\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/dutch-parliament-votes-to-shut-down-all-of-the-countrys-coal-plants\/\"><strong>READ<\/strong> the full story<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch parliament voted recently\u00a0to\u00a0shutter the nation\u2019s coal industry\u00a0in order to achieve a 55-percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. The vote, which is not yet binding, would require shutting down the five coal power plants currently operating in the Netherlands, three of which just came online in 2015. Slashing CO2 emissions by 55 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2016\/11\/11\/from-the-web-dutch-parliament-votes-to-shut-down-all-of-the-countrys-coal-plants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Dutch parliament votes to shut down all of the country\u2019s coal plants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[427000,8582],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-leadership","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-32","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}