On Monday 25 June, European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete gave his assurance that raising the EU’s ambition for its 2030 objective was possible before the COP 24 in Katowice, and that the long-term strategy requested by the European Council between now and March 2019 (see EUROPE 11988) and by 14 European environment ministers for November 2018 (see EUROPE 12048) will be fully comprehensive.
“If the new energy efficiency targets (32.5%) and renewable...