All In It Together?

The announcement of a UK government 10 point, 'green plan' with 250,000 jobs has had a mixed reception (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/17/boris-johnson-announces-10-point-green-plan-with-250000-jobs). The first thing to note is, that the jobs appear to be a 'guestimate' and are unlikely to match the skill sets of many of the people who have lost their occupations in the Covid-19 pandemic. I have already posted on some of the items. I have noted that the phasing out of sales of new petrol and diesel-fueled vehicles by 2030 (but with hybrids being apparently allowed longer) appears too slow to some groups. I have also commented on the plans to annually plant more trees (even though trees are inferior to peatlands as carbon repositories). One might also add that different species of tree vary in their ability to 'fix' carbon. Other points in the plan include a quadrupling of offshore wind power by 2030 (what about land-based wind turbines and solar power?) and exploring hydrogen as a heating/propulsion fuel (water is the waste product). It is also claimed in the plan that £0.5bn will be spent on new, smaller-scale nuclear power (where?), £1bn on improving building (home and public) insulation and £200m on carbon capture (that should be standard for power stations and incineration sites). It is also claimed that the greener energy plans of aviation and shipping will be actively explored (these, I think, tend to be vague and could be easily side-stepped by registration in other countries). There is also an unspecific claim that 'greener' modes of individual (walking and cycling?) and public transport will be 'encouraged'. Finally, it's promised that London will become a 'global centre of green finance' (so no funding of oil, gas and coal anywhere in the world and no accommodating of oligarchs with dodgy money?). It's nice to have a plan but I don't see much about how progress will be monitored. One might say that planning for changes to be evident, by 2030 (2 electoral cycles), is, without annual progress reports, like 'kicking the problem into the long grass'. It should also be self-evident that, the UK making these changes (verging some think on inadequate?), is meaningless unless the other industrialised nations on the planet do the same or better.