Europe’s 20-20 vision

Political leaders of the 27 EU nations are meeting to discuss proposals to make deeper binding commitments to CO2 emissions. This BBC news article provides good background for AS students looking at the issue for their AQA unit 3 paper and it is also relevant for A2 students covering environmental policy. I am always slightly suspicious of grand design statements, as always the devil is in the detail. It might be worth getting your students to take this interactive test available on the BBC web site.

“Aside from cutting emissions by at least one-fifth by 2020 from 1990 levels, EU states have agreed to use 20 percent of renewable energy sources in power production and 10 percent of biofuels from crops in transport by the same date.”