CHAPTER 4
From agreement via legislation to implementation – will the
climate and energy package deliver until 2020?
Jan Geiss
4.1 INTRODUCTION
The European Union (EU) has established a set of targets for renewable energy, energy efficiency
and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions for the year 2020. Whilst the transposition and imple-
mentation are work in progress one can assume that the political frameworks on EU and national
levels are in the first place able to deliver those 2020 targets. However, a wide spread lack of
ambition leads to the conclusion that all three targets are still under threat.
Renewables are on track in the year 2013, but the planned growth rates are going up towards
2020 and one has to fear that most Member States lack the ...