Two into Three Won't Go; Europe and Climate Change  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 395 no. 8684 (May 2010), page 53.
Topik: Climate Change; Emission Standards; Renewable Resources; Environmental Regulations; Environmental Policy; Energy Policy; Business Government Relations; Pollution Control

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One of the least convincing things about the European Union's energy and climate policy is the brazen catchiness of its slogan: 20-20-20. This refers to a 20% reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions and 20% share for renewable energy sources by 2020. The idea that rigorous analysis of the right policies happened to echo the target date seems, at best, trivially condescending. At least this week's suggestion by the European Commission that the EU should consider unilaterally moving to a 30% cut in CO2 has the merit of showing that something other than public relations and numerology is at work. Yet for many that is the limit of its appeal. The French and German governments have already come out against the plan. The main business lobby group in Brussels is opposed as well. Their argument is that bigger cuts would burden business at a difficult time, both by increasing the cost of carbon for such large emitters as the steel and cement industries, and by raising the price of electricity for everyone else.

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