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Ed Davey says UK will oppose EU renewable energy target
2013-05-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: The UK will push for the EU to adopt a legally binding target to cut its collective greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 50 per cent by 2030, it emerged on Saturday. But it will not back what it believes would be an inflexible and unnecessary renewable energy goal for the same year. The energy secretary, Ed Davey, said Britain wanted the EU, which is now working to extend its 2020 climate targets to 2030, to unilaterally agree to a legally binding 40 per cent cut in emissions from 1990 levels...
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