This positive step kick starts the negotiations of the Clean Energy package in the European Parliament, a key action towards meeting the Paris Agreement. It is vital that we embrace this level of commitment and make rules on energy efficiency binding.<\/p>\n
The EEB is Europe\u2019s largest network of environmental organisations with 140\u00a0members in over 30 countries.<\/em><\/p>\n Today at 11AM the European Parliament Environmental Committee held the first key vote on the Energy Efficiency Directive.<\/p>\n The committee took the position of creating a 40 per cent energy efficiency target for 2030, making the national targets binding, including the transport sector in the annual energy savings and improving monitoring and reporting.<\/p>\n Roland Joebstl EEB Policy Officer on Energy and Climate said:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe confirmation of the binding 40 per cent\u00a0energy efficiency target is the starting gun for higher ambition in the whole clean Energy package<\/u>. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWith only 59 days to go for the COP23 the Parliament is finally matching its words with actions.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNow the Industry Committee must come on board and embrace the energy transition as the tool to reduce GHG-emissions while creating jobs, saving money and improving air quality. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe binding 40% energy efficiency goal is key as it will enable Europe to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) welcomes the decision of the European Parliament Environmental Committee to support higher targets for energy efficiency in 2030. This positive step [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,123,124,3,4],"tags":[92,278],"class_list":["post-46624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","category-climate-change","category-energy-savings","category-news","category-press-release","tag-climate-change","tag-energy-efficiency"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Global-Sustainability-1-web-e1495523102709.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}