08/12/2021 (Agence Europe) – Nine organisations representing the European renewable energy industry sent a joint letter to the European Parliament and EU Member States on Wednesday 8 December, urging them to set a target of at least 45% renewable energy in the Union’s gross final energy consumption by 2030. This would be a more ambitious target than the one proposed by the European Commission (“at least 40%”) in its proposal for a revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (‘RED II’ - 2018/2001) currently before the co-legislators (see EUROPE 12762/8). According to the signatories - which also include members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the 40% target is incompatible with the Paris Agreement and the EU’s climate target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. See the letter: https://bit.ly/305yQ3N (DG)