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02/08/2016

EU policy in the fight against climate change (DIEEEO79-2016)

The new Paris agreement, achieved in the XXI Conference of Parties (COP 21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, seeks the objective of keeping global average temperature increase below 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels.

To reach this target, European Union has developed a set of reference policies and intermediary milestones to reach decarbonisation. The European commitment is the reduction of GHG emissions is 80% and 95% until year 2050. To achieve these objectives, energetic and non-energetic uses must reduce their GHG emissions meaningfully.

This report presents the implications that the European Union will face reaching these environmental achieve.

The change of energetic matrix won’t be free of difficulties and considerations due to the different nature of energetic sources present in the electrical generation mix, by the intermittent character of renewable energies, as for the different cost functions that these new technologies present in relation with conventional energies.

Author: Alberto Carbajo & Alberto Amores

THIS DOCUMENT IS ONLYA VAILABLE IN SPANISH LANGUAGE.

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