ENERGY EFFICIENCY – EU
January 1st, 2004
KEITH NUTHALLDESPITE the gloom over the European Union's (EU) global warming emission performance, its 15 member countries have become steadily more energy efficient over the past 10 years, according to figures from Eurostat, the EU's statistical office. It based its conclusions on energy intensity ratios, measuring how much energy produces a unit of economic output. These, it said, have decreased by about 12 per cent on average since 1993. The figures have raised hopes in Brussels that the EU maybe moving towards the sustainability goal of generating economic ...
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