“We recently adopted new targets for 2030 when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, [...] energy consumption, and [...] renewable energy, and we need to step up the effort to reach those targets”, affirmed Jorre De Schrijver, a climate change mitigation and energy expert at the European Environment Agency (EEA), during an online conference on Tuesday, 14 November.
And with good reason: the target for 2030 is a 55% reduction in relation to 1990 levels. Yet, “the current...