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Wide variations in National Energy and Climate Plans: how can the EU seriously budget for emissions reductions?

February 1, 2021 by Carlo Stagnaro and Carlos Di Bonifacio

The EU has big and growing ambitions for emissions reductions by 2030: down 40% below 1990 levels, increasing the share of renewables to 32% of final energy consumption and improving energy efficiency by 32.5% above business-as-usual. These targets will be further revised as the more ambitious goal of cutting emissions by 55% by 2030 becomes legally binding. This means the EU as well as individual nations must estimate the cost of meeting these … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Investment Tagged With: EC, efficiency, emissions, EU, investment, NECPs, renewables

EU election risk: policymakers should go for real decarbonisation now while efficiency savings can help

March 15, 2019 by Energy Post Premium

With elections in May, the balance of opinion in Parliament is a climate policy risk factor on the minds of many in Brussels. The national draft 10-year energy plans, just in to the Commission, project widespread growth in costlier renewables. But populists who see climate as a globalist rather than nationalist-first agenda may prove hard to bring on side with an expensive and disruptive transition. The public will be influenced by climate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, EU Policy, PREMIUM Tagged With: carbon taxes, Clean Energy Package, coal phase-out, Czech Republic, energy efficency, energy union, EU elections, France, gas, Germany, gilets jaunes, just transition, NECPs, Nord Stream 2, Poland, populists, subsidies, UK

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