Climate change is one of the gravest challenges facing humanity. The EU is working for a global agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and is leading the way by taking bold action of its own. In a landmark decision in December 2008, EU leaders approved a comprehensive package of emission-cutting measures. The plan aims to reduce greenhouse gases at least 20% by 2020 (compared with 1990 levels), raise renewable energy's share of the market to 20% and cut overall energy consumption by 20% (compared with projected trends). Within the drive for more renewable energy, it was agreed that 10% of fuel for transport should come from biofuels, electricity or hydrogen.Sustainable development has long been one of the overarching objectives of EU policy. EU leaders launched the first EU sustainable development strategy in 2001 and updated it in 2006 to tackle shortcomings and take account of new challenges.
Closely tied to climate change and energy policy, the revised plan stresses the importance of education, research and public funding to achieve sustainable production and consumption patterns.
Since then there have been significant efforts in terms of policy. Now the focus is on putting policy into practice. In 2009, the commission proposed a package of measures to promote eco-friendly products, including greater use of energy efficiency labels like those found on wash machines.
What I like about the above which I have "borrowed" from http://europa.eu/pol/env/index_en.htm is that it wants to promote eco-friendly products, including greater use of energy efficiency labels like those found on wash machines. Now thats lovely don't get me wrong but what I thought was missing of that sentance was energy efficiency labels like those found on wash machines and EPCs (currently in use in the UK). Why not put on there that the EPCs in place in the UK have a similar energy efficiency graph?
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