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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2020
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Discussion Papers No. 940
Verlag: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Zusammenfassung: 
In 2018, an agreement between the key EU institutions - the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council - was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its three main targets: lower greenhouse gas emissions, higher renewable share in final energy consumption, and improved energy efficiency. We find that the renewable and energy efficiency targets have been set so high that the derived emissions reduction (50 percent) exceeds the EU climate target (40 percent). Hence, there is no need for an EU climate policy, for example, to use carbon prices to reach the EU climate goals. It is, however, not cost-efficient to achieve the climate target by imposing the three EU targets. We demonstrate that a cost-efficient policy that obtains a 50 percent GHG emissions reduction would increase annual welfare (relative to the Reference scenario) by an amount corresponding to 0.6 percent of GDP in Europe.
Schlagwörter: 
climate policy
renewables
energy efficiency
energy modeling
EU 2030
JEL: 
Q28
Q41
Q48
Q54
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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