The European Union is set to maintain its current climate focus on renewables and efficiency targets in its 2030 policy, the Climate Commission has revealed.
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme, which caps the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted by regulated installations, would remain the key element of the EU Climate Energy package for the next decade, due to be presented on January 22.
“Pricing is essential and I also do believe that the Emissions Trading Scheme is important,” said the EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard.
“We must be careful that however we will construct it [the 2030 package], it does not necessarily have to be a “copy-paste” of what we did up to 2020, but there must still be a strong component of both efficiency and renewables in European climate policies.”
Watch the interview with Connie Hedegaard on the EU Climate Energy 2030 package below.
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