Energy
The European Council which is part of the EU has been playing the role of both advocate and regulator in Europe’s push for greener and cleaner energy. The Council creates and administers various directives that are in line with the EU’s target of at-least 27% renewable energy of its overall energy consumption by 2030.
Such directives are necessitated by the fact that Energy consumption is steadily on the rise world-over, having risen by 28% between 2000 and 2010. Of this, industrial energy consumption is a significant component.