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Sustainable Energy Policies for Europe
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Sustainable Energy Policies for Europe

by Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
200 pages
10h 49m
English
CRC Press
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The emission cap could be lowered, but its definition will always depend on political decision
makers who do not have the interest to put additional burden on their industries especially in
times of economic crisis;
Carbon leakage still remains a problem;
The renewables and the efficiency targets already reach most of the 2020 emission reduction
targets, which questions the existence of the EU-ETS if no higher emission target will be
established.
As a consequence, to make the EU-ETS a system which makes sense, a new binding 2020
target should be established to move the EU further beyond the already to be expected reductions
in 2020
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ISBN: 9780415620994