Ecofys and WWF have just launched a climate policy tracker that they claim is the first up-to-date tracker of climate policy controls (Is that really true? Not that it matters). In summary what it suggests is that the combined action of EU states is only 1/3 of the way to decarbonising for 2050. What I found particularly depressing was that support for renewable energy was widely covered but that energy efficiency was much less comprehensive. This is just so nuts when you think of all the effort that has been put into the EE message. It's back to the old problem of what is sexy grabs the headlines.
No country comes out particularly well - the best rating is a D. The UK ranks somewhere in the middle of the pack with an E. I've not yet looked at the full report (registration to obtain access does not appear to be instantaneous) but from the country summaries I worry that there may have been some (probably unintentional) bias included. Just compare summaries for, say, Austria with the UK. Of course - the full analysis may well be pukka - in which case my apologies for misreading the summaries. Whatever, this provides just one more indication that not enough is being done - anywhere.
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