Blue and Green: Back in 2008 the then French president Nicholas Sarkozy used his countrys presidency of the EU to secure agreement for 20% of Europes energy to come from renewables by 2020. It was a move that kickstarted the mass deployment of renewable technologies across our continent.
So what should we make of the European commissions latest proposals for 2030? These proposals have a stated aim of increasing the share of renewables across the EU as a whole to 27%, but at the same time remove the central...