{"id":110165,"date":"2023-03-30T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T10:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?p=110165"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T10:54:00","slug":"conclusion-of-red-trilogues-eu-lawmakers-fail-to-set-ambitious-renewables-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/conclusion-of-red-trilogues-eu-lawmakers-fail-to-set-ambitious-renewables-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Conclusion of RED trilogues: EU lawmakers fail to set ambitious renewables target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday 30 March, negotiators from the European Parliament, Commission and Council reached a long-awaited agreement on the revision of the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED).<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the last round of interinstitutional negotiations, a deal was agreed on the overall EU renewable energy target for 2030 \u2013 a mandatory 42,5% share of renewables in gross final energy consumption, and a 45% voluntary target \u2013 and on targets for renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBOs) used in transport.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Cosimo Tansini<\/strong>, Policy Officer for Renewable Energy at the EEB says:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is very disappointing to see the ambition on the EU renewable energy target watered down through undue influences on the RED by the nuclear lobby and their champions among EU governments. A mandatory 45% target would already be weak and outdated. Scenario modelling shows that 50% is possible and recommendable to respect our climate goals from the Paris Agreement, hence anything lower than 45% simply shows European dis-unity and lack of ambition. It is now crucial that EU countries commit to steep decarbonisation and renewables roll-out trajectories with a clear aim to exceed the targets set in the RED.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 30 March, negotiators from the European Parliament, Commission and Council reached a long-awaited agreement on the revision of the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED).\u00a0 In<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":110166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,3,4,144],"tags":[544,167,784],"class_list":["post-110165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","category-news","category-press-release","category-homepage","tag-climate","tag-press-release","tag-renewable-energy"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TEMPLATE-OPTION-1-Official-Twitter-quote-card-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}