The European Union’s new targets on emissions and renewables: pluses and minuses
David Buchan argues that Angela Merkel has got her fellow EU leaders to agree at their March 8-9 summit to goals giving her a strong hand in chairing this year’s G-8 climate change negotiations. But making the emission trading scheme work would be a better long- term route to promoting clean energy than setting renewables targets.
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Country and Regional Studies , Energy and the Environment , Energy Policy , Renewable
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Climate Change Policy , Emissions , Emissions Trading Scheme , European Union , Kyoto , Negotiations , Permits , Renewables , Targets