The 2009 EU Renewables Directive – how binding is ‘binding’?
September 13th, 2010Renewable energy has been an area of considerable policy activity in the European Union (‘EU’) during the last decade. In 2009, EU Directive 2009/28/EC (the ‘second Renewables Directive’) established an overall ‘binding’ target for the EU of sourcing 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, based on individual member state targets. However, one issue that looms large over the EU’s climate change crusade is the mechanism for enforcement of its own targets.
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