2. The Commission by environmental campaigners forecast 3 trillion euros
would generate by 2050 on their green revolution campaign- to make EU
energy almost totally carbon free.
The energy shift would already create around half a million extra jobs by
2020, Crown researchers from German aerospace center DLR, which also
specializes in energy and transport, found. It has legislated to ensure that
20 percent of the energy mix is green by the said year, as part of a set of
three main environmental goals. But it has yet to achieve agreement on
binding targets beyond 2020, even though non-binding roadmaps have
laid out the need for a virtually carbon-free electricity mix by 2050.
3. Commissioned by Greenpeace and the European
Renewable Energy Council (EREC), the 2012 Energy
evolution report lays out risk avoidance towards almost
carbon-free energy. They include curbing energy
demand through greater efficiency, increasing
investment in wind and solar power and phasing out
subsidies for carbon-intensive energy, such as coal.
To bring about the energy transformation, it sees a need to invest
about 99 billion euros between now and 2050 or else this will be
added on the list of renewable energy scam, but it says the
financial gains are much greater. Renewable energy has no fuel
costs; the fuel cost savings in the energy evolution scenario reach
a total of 3, 010 billion euros up to 2050, or 75 billion per year.
Another benefit is job-creation, one of their strides in fraud
prevention. The Crown report finds almost totally green energy
would lead to half a million extra jobs compared with business as
usual, as renewable energy initially demands more workers than
carrying on with fossil fuel.