Chapter 10

Decarbonizing the EU Energy System

Paul Drummond1, Steve Pye1, Christophe McGlade1, Carole Mathieu2, Željko Jurić3, Marko Matosović3 and Paul Deane4,    1University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom,    2Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Paris, France,    3Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar (EIHP), Zagreb, Croatia,    4University College Cork, (UCC), Cork, Ireland

Abstract

The Paris Agreement of December 2015 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was a historically significant landmark agreement that covers almost all of the world’s emissions. In line with scientific findings, the EU’s objective (in the context of necessary reductions by developed countries as a group) ...

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