Despite slight improvements compared to their draft versions (see EUROPE 12277/4), the final national energy and climate plans (NECPs) of Hungary, Poland, Romania, Italy and Spain are not up to the task of meeting the European Union's climate goals, according to analyses published on Wednesday 9 September by PlanUp, a consortium including the NGOs Carbon Market Watch, Energy Cities, Transport & Environment (T&E), Climact and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB ).
The Hungarian government has raised its 2030 renewable energy target from 20% to 21%, while the European Commission recommended 23%, the report says.
The analyses also point out that Italy intends to continue to “rely heavily on unsustainable biofuels as well as on fossil fuels” while the Polish government expects coal to still supply between 56 and 60% of the country's electricity by 2030.
With regard to Romania, the five organisations regret that the country intends to develop production and infrastructure for liquefied gas in the transport sector.
According to these analyses, the agricultural sector also remains a major gap in the NECPs of these countries, which contain very few, if any, measures to reduce the sector's greenhouse gas emissions.
See analyses (by country): https://bit.ly/2Raj9jF (Italy) ; https://bit.ly/3hpa29P (Spain) ; https://bit.ly/3ikwLVu (Hungary) ; https://bit.ly/35jVKot (Poland) ; https://bit.ly/3bQqiPN (Romania) Original version in French by Damien Genicot)