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Taking a closer look at Europe's renewable energy plans for 2020

News Published 14 Sep 2010 Last modified 21 Jun 2016

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Europe is committed to obtaining 20 % of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. But how is the responsibility for reaching this common target shared among EU countries? And how will individual countries achieve their targets? The European Environment Agency (EEA) provides answers to such questions via a database, which facilitates the comparison of figures across technologies and between Member States.