With the European Parliament due to approve the agreement reached on 11 July on the Energy Efficiency Directive (see EUROPE B13139A11), which sets the EU’s overall target for 2030, Verena Bax, an energy savings policy expert at CAN Europe, calls on the EU to speed up its efforts in this area, in a blog post published on 6 July.
And with good reason: according to the European NGO coalition, a target of at least 20% by 2030 is necessary to keep Europe on track with the Paris Agreement,...