EU Talks to Speed Up Renewables Hamstrung by Fight Over Trees
- Parliament, member states deadlocked over biomass as renewable
- Talks to resume in March on 45% target for renewables by 2030
Biomass pellets.
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The European Union’s plan to rapidly scale up renewable energy to help it meet its climate goals and end its dependence on Russian fossil fuels has become bogged down over the burning of trees.
Talks to boost the share of renewables in EU energy consumption to 45% by the end of the decade are now in the hands of the European Parliament and the bloc’s 27 member states, which can’t agree on what kinds of biomass should be allowed to contribute to that goal.