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"Several European countries hit some of their sustainable energy targets for
2030 a decade early, a study has found, but big gaps remain across the board.
All EU member states made progress in the 2010s toward reaching the UN’s
seventh sustainable development goal, which calls for access to “affordable,
reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all” by 2030. For some indicators,
several countries had already reached the targets by 2021, the study by Polish
economists published on Wednesday found.
The ranking showed the country closest to the overall goal was Sweden, followed
by Denmark, Estonia and Austria. Malta improved the most, with big gains also
found in Cyprus, Latvia and Belgium – though these countries all had a long way
to go. Bulgaria was furthest from the goal.
The study reveals “systematic progress” towards reaching the goal, the
researchers wrote, “with differences between individual EU countries clearly
decreasing”.
The economists combined seven metrics to get a single measure of countries’
progress toward the goal. The European Commission has set target values for
three of them, while for the rest, the researchers took the level reached by
the top 10% of EU countries in 2015 as a proxy.
Several countries had already achieved their targets for 2030 in at least one
of the indicators by 2021, the research found."
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