The European Union needs to increase its efforts significantly to advance clean technologies innovation in order to meet the Paris climate deal goals, Deputy Director-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission Patrick Child said Friday.
BONN (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th September, 2018) The European Union needs to increase its efforts significantly to advance clean technologies innovation in order to meet the Paris climate deal goals, Deputy Director-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission Patrick Child said Friday.
"I think we all know that the objectives of the Paris Agreement are still someway off, and we are going to require significantly reinforced challenges in order to meet those objectives," Child said at a session at IRENA Innovation Week in Bonn.
The deputy director-general that proper policy framework to accelerate energy innovation was in place.
"We have, I think, the right policy framework to accelerate energy innovation. We have to work together at three levels - firstly, having ambitious national and regional research and innovation strategies and initiatives, combined with the appropriate regulatory framework; secondly - reinforced international cooperation through joint research projects, and thirdly - more effective public-private partnerships," he added.
The EU 2030 Climate and Energy Framework, which would replace the 2020 climate and energy package, sets the targets of at least 40-percent cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels; at least 32-percent share for renewable energy in total production; and at least 32.5-percent improvement in energy efficiency.
Apart from this policy framework, "earlier this summer, the European Commission presented a communication on a renewed European agenda for research in innovation, which was endorsed by Europe's leaders in May," Child added.
�The Innovation Week is held in Bonn September 5-7 and brings together officials, producers, businesses to focus on the issue of renewables.
