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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10564
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SECTORAL POLICY / (ae) energy

EP committee united on energy efficiency ambition

Brussels, 29/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - Voting on the draft energy efficiency directive, which is to help the EU reduce its energy consumption by 20% by 2020 - a target which its is still far from reaching (9% in 2008) - the European Parliament energy committee presented a united front, despite pressure from lobby groups, in support of the level of ambition of its environmentalist rapporteur Claude Turmes (Greens/EFA, Luxembourg) in calling on member states to make this climate target legally...

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