Germany risks failing 2020 energy efficiency goal
Eurostat / Tagesspiegel Background
Germany could flunk yet another climate target if it doesn’t increase energy efficiency, Susanne Ehlerding writes for Tagesspiegel Background. Germany’s efficiency target – like the EU’s – is to reduce primary energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020 (compared to 2008). According to Eurostat figures released today, Germany reduced its gross inland energy consumption by 9.8 percent between 2006 and 2016.
Read the article (behind paywall) here.
All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a
“Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)”
.
They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a
link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.