1.5 The European Commission's ‘Climate Action: Energy for a Changing World’
Similar debates occur at different political scales. For example, the European Commission's ‘Climate Action: Energy for a Changing World’ is the EU's integrated energy and climate change policy adopted in December 2008. It includes three key targets for 2020:
cutting greenhouse gases by 20% (30% if international agreement is reached)
reducing energy consumption by 20% through increased energy efficiency
meeting 20% of energy needs from renewable sources.
Activity 2
The EU mentions ‘the challenge of halving global emissions by 2050’. How does this 50% reduction target compare with figures from other sources; for example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Friends of the Earth?
1.4 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland