Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: November 30, 2005
Written by: Gunnar Grini
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In the recent Green Paper on energy efficiency entitled Doing more with less, the European Commission set a goal for reducing and stabilising the energy demand in Europe to 1990-levels by 2020. To stimulate debate, the Commission put forward 25 questions to be commented on by interested parties. The Bellona Foundation addresses several of them in their response to the consultation and states that promoting energy efficiency needs to be a top priority as a response to the challenges of global warming, conservation of land and water areas and maintaining biodiversity.
Among the actions recommended by Bellona is the implementation of white certificates at EU level, ambitious energy demands for new buildings, implementation of a zero emission program for energy efficient technology, producer responsibility on buildings and a stronger emphasis on funding the use of innovative technology at a commercial scale.
The need for action
DG TREN of the EU Commission has stated that it is important that the Green Paper rapidly leads to concrete action. Following the consultation process the Commission believes that an Action Plan should be drawn out in 2006, outlining the specific actions to be taken at EU and national level, accompanied by cost-benefit analyses. In addition, the directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services is expected to be approved by the Council in the beginning of 2006. This means that Member States will be obliged to reduce their total energy use by at least one percent each year from 2008 until 2013.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.