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Energy and Climate Change: An integrated European strategy

Energy and Climate Change: An integrated European strategy. Tackling climate change for sustainability Budapest, 4 April 2007 By Edit Herczog, member of the European Parliament. INTRO: Sustainable, competitive and secure energy: Challenges and solutions. Security of supply. Nuclear :

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Energy and Climate Change: An integrated European strategy

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  1. Energy and Climate Change:An integrated European strategy Tackling climate change for sustainability Budapest, 4 April 2007 By Edit Herczog, member of the European Parliament

  2. INTRO: Sustainable, competitiveand secure energy:Challenges and solutions Security of supply • Nuclear: • relatively cheap • safe, but with rigid capacity • CO2-free, but produces radioactive waste • Challenges: • Solutions: • Renewables: • environment-friendly • flexible capacity • expensive • generally not continuous Economic sustainability: Competitiveness • Fossil: • relatively cheap • safe • polluting • Insufficient reserves • Import-dependent (70%) Environmental sustainability: Reduction of pollution and GHG emission

  3. Energy and Climate:A chain of direct links Stern review: The global warming originates in GHG emission, mainly CO2 The gross „emission mix” in Europe:

  4. Where to act on energy,or how to act on climate? Generation District heating and cooling Industrial use Consumption Transport • Rationalise transport • Interconnect networks Electric office and home appliances • Diversify • Develop and rely on low carbon resources • Increase efficiency • Reduce losses and waste • Raise awareness • Change consumer habits

  5. Generate more energy, emit less CO2: Develop renewables (FP7 + CIP 2007-2013 – intelligent energy programme) Invest into nuclear (EURATOM loans, competitive business models) Find solutions to make fossil-based generation more sustainable (higher efficiency) Transport energy more intelligently: Develop and interconnect networks (TEN-E) Suppress bottlenecks Rationalise supply (the longer the distance, the higher the loss) • Consume better: • Better isolation of buildings • Integrated co-generation • and district heating/cooling • structures • Lower consumption • of electric devices • Improved consumer habits • More energy-efficient • industrial processes • More energy-efficient • technologies, networks • and systems in transport. Summary:TO DO shortlist

  6. Economic conclusion:In Europe’s energy mix,we need all resources NUCLEAR Competitive, but socially and politically sensitive FOSSIL Competitive, efficient, but polluting and import-dependent ENERGY RENEWABLES Promising, popular, environment-friendly, but costly and moderately efficient. High carbon CRUDE OIL TRANSPORT FUSION Ideal, mandatory (ITER), but costly and not available before long. SYN- THE- TIC FUELS HYBRID BIO- FUELS Low carbon

  7. Affordable prices + Innovation --------------------------- COMPETITIVENESS AND SOLIDARITY Reduce CO2 emission + Increase energy efficiency + Develop post-Kyoto --------------------------- LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY LISBON MOSCOW KYOTO Stably good rela- tionships + Safety and Envi-ronmental standard export ------------------------------ SECURITY OF SUPPLY Environmental rules + Safety rules + Market integration ----------------------------- LEGISLATION - REGULATION STRASBOURG Political conclusion:The four pillars of the European Energy and Climate Strategy

  8. Next steps of the stratgy inthe European decision making

  9. Thank you very much. Edit Herczog edit.herczog@europarl.europa.eu +32 228 47596

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