EU Energy Roadmap criticized for unrealistic goals

An article in the Energy Tribune regadring the European Union’s Energy Roadmap criticized the EU for dramatically increasing its renewable fuels target. The EU has a 12% renewable energy target for 2010 but has reached on 6.4% to date – based on the original 15 member states. The full 27-nation EU is even further off the mark. Having set itself up to miss the 2010 target, the EU recently raised the target to 20% by 2020. This may well help critics of the EU and the Kyoto Treaty for setting unrealistic goals which are announced to great fanfare and then consistently missed.

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