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The European Council has accepted the proposals from the European Commission for a -40% greenhouse gas target, a 27% renewables target and a 27% energy efficiency target.

As well as the numbers, the council accepted the commission’s suggestion that the greenhouse gas target should be legally binding and divided up between member states, the renewable energy target should be legally-binding but only at EU level, and the energy efficiency target should be indicative.

Poland and other central and eastern European countries got more flexibility and more money – an entirely just and sensible concession by western Europe which got rich by burning coal.

Initial reactions have been entirely predictable. Outgoing climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard hailed an “important and ambitious step forward”. Brook Riley of Friends of the Earth Europe claimed that the deal “does nothing to end Europe’s dependency on fossil fuels or to speed up our transition to a clean energy future”.

– See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/10/24/19363/#sthash.DIetu6Rg.dpuf

The European Council has accepted the proposals from the European Commission for a -40% greenhouse gas target, a 27% renewables target and a 27% energy efficiency target.

As well as the numbers, the council accepted the commission’s suggestion that the greenhouse gas target should be legally binding and divided up between member states, the renewable energy target should be legally-binding but only at EU level, and the energy efficiency target should be indicative.

Poland and other central and eastern European countries got more flexibility and more money – an entirely just and sensible concession by western Europe which got rich by burning coal.

Initial reactions have been entirely predictable. Outgoing climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard hailed an “important and ambitious step forward”. Brook Riley of Friends of the Earth Europe claimed that the deal “does nothing to end Europe’s dependency on fossil fuels or to speed up our transition to a clean energy future”.

– See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/10/24/19363/#sthash.DIetu6Rg.dpuf

The European Council has accepted the proposals from the European Commission for a -40% greenhouse gas target, a 27% renewables target and a 27% energy efficiency target.

As well as the numbers, the council accepted the commission’s suggestion that the greenhouse gas target should be legally binding and divided up between member states, the renewable energy target should be legally-binding but only at EU level, and the energy efficiency target should be indicative.

Poland and other central and eastern European countries got more flexibility and more money – an entirely just and sensible concession by western Europe which got rich by burning coal.

Initial reactions have been entirely predictable. Outgoing climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard hailed an “important and ambitious step forward”. Brook Riley of Friends of the Earth Europe claimed that the deal “does nothing to end Europe’s dependency on fossil fuels or to speed up our transition to a clean energy future”.

– See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/10/24/19363/#sthash.DIetu6Rg.dpuf

The European Council has accepted the proposals from the European Commission for a -40% greenhouse gas target, a 27% renewables target and a 27% energy efficiency target.

As well as the numbers, the council accepted the commission’s suggestion that the greenhouse gas target should be legally binding and divided up between member states, the renewable energy target should be legally-binding but only at EU level, and the energy efficiency target should be indicative.

Poland and other central and eastern European countries got more flexibility and more money – an entirely just and sensible concession by western Europe which got rich by burning coal.

Initial reactions have been entirely predictable. Outgoing climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard hailed an “important and ambitious step forward”. Brook Riley of Friends of the Earth Europe claimed that the deal “does nothing to end Europe’s dependency on fossil fuels or to speed up our transition to a clean energy future”.

– See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/10/24/19363/#sthash.DIetu6Rg.dpuf