EU Commission Publishes Its Climate And Renewables Package

The EU Commission has unveiled its long-awaited (and delayed) climate change package containing a number of proposals in different areas to boost its policy on reducing carbon emissions.

Tackling climate change is now one of the Commission's top priorities¹ and the package is intended to assist in achieving the two key climate change and sustainability targets set by Member States in March 2007:

• a minimum 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 (or 30% if international agreement is reached to commit other developed countries to the same target).

• 20% of energy consumption in the EU to come from renewables by 2020.