EU Climate Plan Package: A Poor First Step

04.02.2008 Greenpeace

Brussel, Belgium — EU countries make breakthroughs in increasing renewable energy use and reducing carbon release. Although there isn’t enough progress in this regard, the EU is on the right road.

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The governments undertake to take steps necessary to adapt to this new situation, quickly signing the contract, but we want to see activities to make sure the goal is reached.

Large energy companies have found intensive lobby activities for the development and implementation of a virtual "renewable energy trading" system that will prevent the development and widespread use of renewable energy. But the efforts spent on the development of this system that could be a big blow to renewable energy were not successful.

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The European Union has released the amount of renewable energy to produce and use to achieve EU targets of each country. It is only a part of the plan prepared to promote the production of renewable energy, prevent climate change. In addition to 20% reduction of carbon release up to 2020, castings of carbon release quantities required to reduce each country.

] You need to less than 30 percent in the carbon release]

Although everything looks like the way, the EU does not seem to be willing enough to implement these regulations in the target countries.

EU countries are still unable to keep global warming under two degrees Celsius; scientists both ideas when there is critical value for the world climate of two degrees Celsius.

And those in this opinion are not only environmental organizations. Scientists discuss that the greenhouse gases will not be enough for 20%. The European Union Commission also shares the same idea with scientists.

If you want to lead to other countries in the EU climate change, it should determine realistic goals in carbon release - and this means to achieve 30% reduction from 2020.

]AB carbon credit system is still defective

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The project drafts contain new legal regulations for proje trading. In 2005, the EU dominated the industry with an arrangement on “Sera Gas Selim Trade”. Accordingly, companies will drop carbon emissions, or other companies will purchase carbon credit.

AB offered new solution recommendations to fix some main problems within the scope of gas release trade but still couldn’t resist industrial pressure and ensure that the arrangement is adequately effective. [email protected] [

The companies will still have 40% carbon release right until 2013. We must be sure that the solution is really going to reach its purpose, as the sufficient price of the pollutants is paid, and the actual damage of the carbon is reflected correctly. [

A good start of the EU’s “Thread Plan Pack” but if EU climate change will lead to other countries, there’s a lot more way to get.

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