Thursday, April 26, 2012

Stricter EU carbon target would cost you a few cups of coffee

BusinessGreen: The EU could move to more ambitious 2020 carbon reduction targets at a cost of EUR7 to EUR9 per person annually, according to new research by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The analysis, launched today, found it would cost an extra EUR3.5bn on average per year for the EU as a whole from 2011 to 2020 to increase its 2020 carbon reduction target from 20 per cent to 30 per cent. This would be equivalent to the cost of a few...

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