EU: No action on 2030 renewables target is 'no real option'
Thursday, October 18, 2012
The EU needs to advance its plans for renewable energy targets for 2030 soon, but only as part of a wider climate package, a member of energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger’s cabinet said Tuesday (16 October). While no conclusion had been drawn on whether new renewables targets should be binding, “the Commissioner is quite open to this,” Jasmin Battista told a Brussels conference to launch a new report by the consultants, Althesys. ...