EU countries still at odds over 2030 renewables policy

EurActiv reported that Energy ministers from the 27 EU Member States pledged at the Energy Council on the 3 December 2012 to maintain momentum for a post-2020 renewables policy framework, but behind the formulaic words, old divisions remained.

The Council adopted conclusions on renewable energy. The renewable energy objective of achieving a binding target of a 20% of renewable energies in overall EU energy consumption by 2020, set by the European Council in 2007, is one of the headline targets in the Europe 2020 strategy for jobs and growth.

Council of the European Union: Press Release, PRES/12/500 Energy Council, Brussels, 3 December 2012 http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/trans/133974.pdf

ESO: Background information: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Renewable energy: a major player in the European energy market (COM (2012)271) http://www.europeansources.info/record/communication-from-the-commission-to-the-european-parliament-the-council-the-european-economic-and-social-committee-and-the-committee-of-the-regions-renewable-energy-a-major-player-in-the-europea/

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