| Series Title | European Voice |
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| Series Details | Vol.12, No.10, 16.3.06 |
| Publication Date | 16/03/2006 |
| Content Type | News |
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Date: 16/03/06 A first attempt at boosting energy efficiency in Europe risks overshooting itself, according to a report up for discussion in the European Parliament. The European Commission last June published a Green Paper aimed at shaving 20% of EU energy consumption by 2020 through energy efficiency measures. But a report from Spanish Conservative MEP Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca warns that "it is necessary to delimit appropriately the scope [of the] Green Paper". Some of the measures proposed in the "very wide" paper "do not have a direct relation with energy efficiency". In order to make energy efficiency rules work, suggests Vidal-Quadras Roca, the EU should focus on big problem sectors, such as buildings and transport. The MEP also asks why, in areas including transport and hydrogen, the EU seems to be lagging behind other parts of the world: "It is hard to understand why by 2010 Canada is likely to have finished its own 'hydrogen highway' betwe-en Vancouver and Whistler and the EU has not a similar project in sight." The Commission published last week a second consultative document, on a common EU energy policy. Efficiency, along with renewables, is pushed in the common policy paper as a way to both fight climate change and reduce reliance on importing energy. Author looks at Spanish Conservative MEP Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca's report on the European Commission's October 2005 Green Paper on energy efficiency. |
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| Subject Categories | Energy |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
