Adoption of the energy-climate package on first reading by the European Parliament

[...The package adopted by the Parliament and the Council ensures the strict implementation of the unconditional commitment to reduce emissions by 20% by 2020 and to reduce them by 30% if the developed countries make a comparable commitment and the developing countries make fitting, yet precise and verifiable, commitments. The package sets out this objective precisely by sector, year and country. It also stipulates, equally precisely, how the commitment to increase the share of energy consumption from renewable energies to 20% is to be implemented, and provides a working structure for efforts in the domain of the automobile, fuel, and carbon capture and storage...]

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