Energy plan given green light as EU agrees compromise

EU Member States seem to have agreed December 2008 after much negotiati to an agreement by which the EU will commit itself to generating at least 20 per cent of its energy from renewable sources, such as wind and biofuels, by 2020.

Diplomats from the Member States also scrambled to narrow differences on other elements of a vast climate package before the meeting of EU heads of state at the European Council, 11-12 December 2008 in Brussels.

ESO: Background information: Renewables deal edges 'closer' despite French pressure http://www.europeansources.info/record/renewables-deal-edges-closer-despite-french-pressure/

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