Europe needs to reduce its CO2 emissions by 25 percent over the next decade, rather than the currently agreed 20 percent, if the bloc is to meet a longer-term goal for 2050, a communication to be published by the European Commission next month is set to say.
A draft of the '2050 Roadmap', seen by EUobserver, says the EU can meet this tougher target however by ensuring its current energy efficiency pledge is kept.
EU leaders meeting in Brussels earlier this month conceded that member states needed to boost their efforts in order to meet a non-binding promise of increasing EU energy efficiency by 20 percent by 2020.
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