Green turnaround or businesss as usual?
EU climate policy in the new member-states
Martin Konečný, Keti Medarova-Bergström
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Abstract
The economies of central eastern Europe have remained unchanged in at least one respect: their high level of energy wastage. Add to that the explosion of car-use in the region, and eastern central Europe becomes the EU's major obstacle to reaching its emissions targets for 2020. So why does funding allocated through the European Union still disfavour climate-friendly development?
(Web Special, pp. 1–6)
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