OFFICIAL EU REPORT SAYS 20 PERCENT RENEWABLE TARGET BY 2020 IS UNACHIEVABLE
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EXPERT report for the European Commission has concluded that additional efforts are required by the European Union (EU) and its member states, or the target of increasing renewables' share of EU energy consumption to 20% will be missed.
The paper was written by the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, for the Commission's directorate-general for energy and transport. It says given current programmes, laws and policies, renewables' share of primary energy consumption will rise ...
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