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Organised by the European Commission<\/strong>, this year\u2019s European Union Sustainable Energy Week<\/strong> (EUSEW) is to be held in Brussels <\/strong>from 24 to 28 June.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Every year since it was first held in 2006, the Sustainable Energy Week has brought together hundreds of organisations<\/strong> (with 30,000 participants from more than forty countries in 2012) which, through their contributions<\/strong>, aim to help towards achieving the European Union\u2019s energy objectives<\/strong> for constructing a more sustainable future<\/strong>. These include showing, promoting<\/strong> and analysing energy efficiency<\/strong> and adhering to a roadmap with a renewable energy target, according to which, by 2020<\/strong>, Member States will produce 20% of their energy consumption needs in the form of renewable energy<\/strong>, as well as reducing <\/strong>their greenhouse gas emissions<\/strong> and energy consumption levels by 20%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n While 2020 may appear to be a date that gives sufficient time for the implementation of the European Union plans, at the beginning of this month of February 2013 the Committee of the Regions<\/strong> (CoR) called on the EU to look beyond 2020<\/strong> and to \u201ccommit to developing a long-term strategy that enables renewable energy<\/strong> to become a real competitor and truly alternative<\/strong> energy source for the years to come\u201d. Moreover, the Committee also suggests that the EU should consider the possibility of becoming 100% reliant on renewable energy by 2050<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a communiqu\u00e9 issued on 1 February this year, the CoR lists the actions <\/strong>that need to be carried out in order to accomplish this ambitious goal<\/strong>: <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Furthermore, the Committee notes that \u201cthe importance of cross-border and inter-regional cooperation<\/strong> should also not be underestimated. Considerable investment in infrastructure<\/strong> \u2013 in terms of upgrading energy networks<\/strong> \u2013 is needed to broaden the access<\/strong> to renewable energy. Often renewable energy sources are not located close to final consumers<\/strong> so investment is urgently needed to broaden distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As has now become a tradition, the organisers of the Sustainable Energy Week have called for entries in a competition <\/strong>in which this year\u2019s awards will be given to the best European projects for energy efficiency, sources of renewable energy<\/strong> and \u201cclean\u201d transport. Two categories<\/strong> have been established. The first is addressed to companies in the public and private sectors, academic institutions and NGOs, while the aim of the second is to recognise achievements in the field by public authorities and energy agencies. The deadline for submission of projects is 8 March 2013.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n During this year\u2019s Sustainable Energy Week, which is titled \u201cOne Small Step from You, One Giant Leap for Europe<\/strong>\u201d some forty conferences<\/strong> will be held under the auspices of the \u201cHigh Level Policy Conference\u201d from 25 to 27 June (http:\/\/www.eusew.eu\/energy-days\/high-level-policy-conference).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Organised by the European Commission, this year\u2019s European Union Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) is to be held in Brussels from 24 to 28 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41],"tags":[],"categorias-smart-power-":[],"paises-":[],"class_list":["post-7401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ingles","category-science-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"categorias-smart-power-","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorias-smart-power-?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"paises-","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paises-?post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Eighth-European-Union-Sustainable-Energy-Week\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1_eighth-european-union-sustainable-energy-week.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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Is it feasible to aim for a sustainable Europe by 2050?<\/b><\/h4>\n
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The European Commission will award prizes to the best projects.<\/b><\/h4>\n
High Level Policy Conference<\/b><\/h4>\n