COM(2005) 265 final: Green Paper on Energy Efficiency or Doing More with Less / Livre Vert sur l'efficacité énergétique ou Comment consommer mieux avec moins
Type: Legislation
The website includes the Green Paper in English, German and French, related press releases, documents and video recordings.
To facilitate your work on this subject, in December 2005, a new web page was created on the ManagEnergy Internet Broadcast website containing video recordings with information on the Green Paper at:
www.managenergy.tv/me_portal/mst/1170/index.html
Andris PiebalgsCommissioner for Energy, European Commission
Press Conference on green paper on energy efficiency
View Video Recording (26 min) Summary
Even without high and volatile oil prices, which have led to a downgrading of the prospects of economic growth in Europe, there would be very good reasons for the European Union to make a strong push towards a re-invigorated programme promoting energy efficiency at all levels of European society:
- Competitiveness and the Lisbon agenda
- Environmental protection and the EU's Kyoto obligations
- Security of supply
This Green Paper therefore seeks to identify the bottlenecks presently preventing these cost effective efficiencies from being captured - lack of appropriate incentives, lack of information, lack of available financing mechanisms, for example.
The Green Paper then seeks to identify options how these bottlenecks can be overcome, suggesting a number of key actions that might be taken.
