EU signals binding energy savings target in September

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Series Details 28.05.14
Publication Date 28/05/2014
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The EU’s energy commissioner, Günther Oettinger, called for a new legally-binding proposal in the Autumn 2014 to cut energy use by 2030, as a way of curbing Europe’s reliance on Russia for a third of its oil, and 39% of its gas supplies.

A 40% energy efficiency target for 2030 would grow Europe’s economy at a rate of 4% a year, spark an annual 3.15% boost in employment and cut fossil fuel imports by €505 billion a year, according to sources with access to a report prepared for the EU’s energy efficiency review.

An IPSOS poll reported on by EurActiv on the 18 June 2014 showed a wide public support for binding EU-wide action on renewable energy and energy efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe.

According to the same website in August 2014, the Mayor of Warsaw complained to the Polish government that 2030 clean energy goals which Poland believed too radical were in fact unambitious, undemocratically decided, and risk spiking EU decarbonisation moves.

Source Link Link to Main Source http://www.euractiv.com/sections/energy/eu-signals-binding-energy-savings-target-september-302497
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