Press Release: 2030 climate and energy goals for a competitive, secure and low-carbon EU economy

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Series Details IP/14/54 (22.01.14)
Publication Date 22/01/2014
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On 22 January 2014 the European Commission presented the new EU framework on climate and energy for 2030.

A reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40% below the 1990 level, an EU-wide binding target for renewable energy of at least 27%, renewed ambitions for energy efficiency policies, a new governance system and a set of new indicators to ensure a competitive and secure energy system are the pillars of the new EU framework.

The framework aims to drive continued progress towards a low-carbon economy and a competitive and secure energy system that ensures affordable energy for all consumers, increases the security of the EU’s energy supplies, reduces our dependence on energy imports and creates new opportunities for growth and jobs, by taking into account potential price impacts on the longer term.

According to Euronews on the 23 January 2014, environmentalists criticised the new climate goals the EU had set.

The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) said that the European Commission White Paper on the EU’s 2030 climate and energy policy framework spectacularly failed to address dangerous climate change and threatened to derail progress made to date in developing clean technologies.

The European Commission had released a disappointing package of proposals on EU climate and energy policy up to 2030, said Greenpeace. EU governments now needed to correct the flaws in these proposals and increase their ambition.

Friends of the Earth Europe said that the policies proposed by the European Commission disregarded climate science which made it clear the need to drastically cut emissions to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming was getting more urgent all the time.

Source Link http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-54_en.htm
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