Over the past few days, negotiators from the European Commission, Parliament, and Council have reached political agreements on three major legislative proposals under the European Commission’s Clean Energy Package , namely those on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy union governance. Together with the deal on the energy performance of buildings reached last month, this wraps up half of the Commission’s proposals under the overall package. The Clean Energy Package was proposed by the European Commission in November 2016 to create a stable legislative environment for the bloc’s clean energy transition. The eight proposals are intended to make the EU energy sector more stable, competitive, and sustainable, and help achieve the EU’s international climate goals through at least the year 2030. Under the UN’s Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the EU has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. The Paris Agreement was reached in 2015 and entered into force at the end of 2016. Renewable energy On Thursday 14 June, negotiators agreed on a new, binding renewable energy target of 32 percent by 2030. A review on increasing the new target further will be conducted by 2023 at the...