Climate change mitigation - Outlook 2020 (Romania)

For the climate change policy 2020 is an important milestone and our country has to join the European effort to meet the ambitious targets set in the EU’s climate change policy and recover successfully from the economic and financial crisis.

The 2020 EU’s targets for the climate and energy policy are related to:

- cutting greenhouse gases by at least 20% of 1990 levels (30% if other developed countries commit to comparable cuts);

- increasing use of renewables (wind, solar, biomass, etc) to 20% of total energy production (currently ± 8.5%);

- cutting energy consumption by 20% of projected 2020 levels - by improving energy efficiency.

The planned contributions of the EU-ETS sector to meet the reduction target and the implementation rules of this scheme for 2013-2020, render difficult the participation of many existing installations. 

According to the last relevant study, Table 3presents the aggregated data on GHG projections, by scenarios.

Due to uncertainties related to climate change there is difficult to assess the 2020 outlook. Post-Kyoto reduction commitments of GHG emissions and the adaptation measures will shape up the 2020 climate change picture.