The European Parliament’s environment committee showed itself to be much more ambitious than the European Commission when, on Thursday 7 September, it called on the EU to increase its 2030 collective energy efficiency target to 40%, making national targets binding – vital under the Paris climate agreement.
The demand, which remains true to the position the European Parliament has always argued, was contained in the report for opinion by Jytte Guteland (S&D, Sweden) on the revision of the...