I don't know if there exists something similar in Belgium (if you know about it, please let me know) but with the upcoming elections the Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) wrote a report (in Dutch, pdf 218p.) in which they make an evaluation of what would be the effects on economy & environment of the political program of the different Dutch political parties.
The graph below shows how much the reduction in Greenhouse Gasses (Mton CO2 eq) would be for the different Dutch political parties.
The bar with highest reduction of course belongs to the Green-Left party (GL) while the lowest reduction is associated with the PVV of Geert Wilders and the right wing liberal party VVD.
Pre-election polls predict the winners of the elections tomorrow will be the two parties (PVV & VVD) that will insufficiently respond to the climate issue. The distortion of the Dutch Climate skeptics around the Klimatosoof & Climategate.nl (Theo Richel, Hans Labohm, Hajo Smit, Rypke Zeilmaker, Marcel Crok, etc) has proven to be successful.
An event like De Groene Rekenkamer’s “National Degreening Day” [sic] probably did have an impact on the politicians present that day, being Helma Neppérus (VVD) and Richard De Mos (PVV), both member of the Dutch Parliament.
And, this is the sad part, both Neppérus & De Mos are responsible for environmental issues within their respective parties. Or how poor understanding of science of a few people can have a gigantic impact on a country’s politics.
edit The color codes mean :
- blue = renewable
- red = energy sector
- green = traffic
- yellow = other
h/t Bart Verheggen
