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The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) has published its first review of EU energy policy, endorsing controversial Commission plans to break up European energy giants and calling for greater cross-border trade in renewable energy among other recommendations.
LinksDossier: EU renewable energy policy
Carmakers should have an extra three years' breathing space to implement carbon dioxide emission reductions, according to a report adopted by MEPs last night (1 September), to the outrage of green campaigners.
LinksDossier: Cars & CO2
In a bid to reduce its dependency on imported oil and tackle global warming, EU leaders have committed to raising the share of biofuels in transport to 10% by 2020, but concerns are growing that increased biofuel production could in fact lead to mass deforestation and food shortages. (read more)
Speeding up research in low-carbon technologies is considered key to facing the twin challenges of climate change and energy-supply security but the EU is still lagging behind when it comes to big R&D budgets. (read more)
At a landmark summit in March 2007, European heads of state agreed to move forward with ambitious objectives to slash greenhouse-gas emissions and boost renewable energies by 2020 in a bid to reduce the EU's dependency on imported fuels and set the pace for "a new global industrial revolution". (read more)
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