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How to expand renewable energy after 2020

Author: Stephen Tindale
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Publisher Centre for European Reform
Publication date 07 December 2012
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Publication synopsis The EU should set targets for renewable energy for 2030 and the end of each subsequent decade, to reach full reliance on renewables by 2060. The policy brief argues that: The EU should set targets for renewable energy for 2030 and the end of each subsequent decade, in order to reach full reliance on renewables by 2060. This would support rather than undermine nuclear power and carbon capture and storage, by emphasising their role as necessary low-carbon ‘bridge technologies’; The European Commission should continue to promote the trading of renewable energy between member-states. This would strengthen the economies of struggling eurozone countries. And the EU should support renewable projects in North Africa; The EU should adopt mandatory standards for all forms of bioenergy. Produce from land that was previously used to grow food should not count towards renewable energy targets.

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Climate change is the most serious issue ever to have faced humanity. Rightly, it is now high on the public, political, media and business agendas. However, too much of the discussion is still about what we should not be doing or what we should be against. There is not enough discussion or information on solutions - what we can and should do to minimise dangerous climate change, and what should be done to make us not only safer and more secure, but also richer and happier.

Stephen Tindale photoStephen Tindale (29 March 1963 – 1 July 2017) was a British environmentalist who was Executive Director of Greenpeace UK from 2000 to 2005. He was Director of The Alvin Weinberg Foundation, co-founder of the organisation Climate Answers, Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Reform and co-author of Repowering Communities with Prashant Vaze.