TY - RPRT U1 - Forschungsbericht A1 - Spencer, Thomas A1 - Pierfederici, Roberta A1 - Sartor, Oliver A1 - Berghmans, Nicolas A1 - Samadi, Sascha A1 - Fischedick, Manfred A1 - Knoop, Katharina A1 - Pye, Steve A1 - Criqui, Patrick A1 - Mathy, Sandrine A1 - Capros, Pantelis A1 - Fragkos, Panagiotis A1 - Bukowski, Maciej A1 - Sniegocki, Aleksander A1 - Virdis, Maria Rosa A1 - Gaeta, Maria A1 - Pollier, Karine A1 - Cassisa, Cyril T1 - State of the low-carbon energy union : assessing the EU's progress towards its 2030 and 2050 climate objectives T2 - Study / Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales N2 - Rather than examining aggregate emissions trends, this study delves deep into the dynamics affecting each sector of the EU energy system. It examines the structural changes taking place in power production, transport, buildings and industry, and benchmarks these with the changes required to reach the 2030 and 2050 targets. In so doing it aims to influence both the ambition and direction of future policy decisions, both at Member State and EU level. In order to assess the adequacy of the EU and its Member States policies with the 2030 and 2050 decarbonisation objectives, this study goes beyond the aggregate GHG emissions or energy use figures and analyse the underlying drivers of emission changes, following a sectoral approach (power generation, buildings, industry, and transport). Historical trends of emission drivers are compared with the required long-term deep decarbonisation pathways, which provide sectoral "benchmarks" or "corridors" against which to analyse the rate and direction of historical change for each Member State and the EU in aggregate. This approach allows the identification of the necessary structural changes in the energy system and policy interventions to reach deep decarbonisation, and therefore the comparison with the current policy programs at European and Member State level. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-65998 UN - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-65998 VL - 2016,8 SP - 45 S1 - 45 PB - Inst. du développement durable et des relations internationales CY - Paris PB - Inst. du développement durable et des relations internationales CY - Paris ER -