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The recent energy price crisis once again put in the spotlight the issue of the EU’s dependency on the import of natural gas. In 2019, the EU’s energy import dependency rate was 62% (up from 56% in 2000). In this regard, gas import dependency reached a record high of 89.5 % in 2019, with Russia providing 42% of imported gas. Such extreme exposure magnifies not...

If the EU really wants to deliver on its Green Deal ambitions for climate and biodiversity, the new sustainability criteria in the Fit for 55 package need to be science- and practice-based, enabling a complementary and not competing range of renewables, including bioenergy.The European Commission has promised a “shift from strategy to delivery” in 2021, including for the Green Deal ambition of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.In...