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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
Content preview from Sustainable Energy Policies for Europe
CHAPTER 8
Scenario development and policy debates
Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes
The 2020 framework was put in place after years of debates in the European Union and among
Member States. Although the March 2007 Summit of Europe’s heads of state and government
certainly played a pivotal role in establishing the consensus and later transforming it into relevant
legislation in the form of the Climate and Energy Package(Chapter 3 of this book), it is worthwhile
understanding that this level of agreement including both painful compromise and joyful success
for some of the participants would not have been possible without prior scientific work on the
feasibility of the targeted framework and on potential impacts on costs, jobs, environmental and
other issues. ...
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