coherent, efficient, transparent, and equitable energy policies at the European level
and implicitly in Romania.
9.4.3 European Union’s Targets on Energy and Climate
With the unanimous international recognition and recognition of the role of energy
in the global problems posed by the natural environment by the development of
socioeconomic activities, especially climate change, which subsequently reacts
negatively to the “society” complex and which, in the energy sector, is materialized
in the form of negative effects on the environmental factors generated by the type of
currently exploited energy resources and inefficiencies in the production, distribution, and use of energy in its various forms, the specialists in this field formulated
legislative policies and directions, imposing measures ameliorating paradoxical
relationships between the natural environment and economic growth. Zamfir et al.
(2016) argued the need to stimulate the implementation of renewable energy by
presenting advantages such as diminishing the dependence on imported energy,
ensuring energy security, improving the quality of life, creating jobs, increasing
competitiveness, and supporting sustainable development and, on the other hand, by
identifying current challenges such as the discontinuity of renewable energy generation, infrastructure that does not meet the needs of these energy sources, consistent
initial investment, low competitiveness, and degradation of the natural ecosystem
through pollution and biodiversity damage. At the same time, green energy development policies call for a significant improvement in energy efficiency in the context
of climate change, which in fact refers to energy saving by reducing consumption. In
order to substantiate these policies relating to the relationship between the natural
environment and the energy system in practice, simple or complex indicators are
used to monitor, assess, and estimate specific aspects of a general problem, such as
GHG emissions indicating a state of the significant environmental climate factor or
the environmental performance index, which reports the state of the environment at a
certain point in a given space. Two cases are exemplified in the field of energy,
energy consumption and low energy security, which can negatively influence both
the amount of atmospheric emissions that intensify climate change and the socioeconomic development of the medium and long term.
The importance of these policies adopted by each state generates an important
political message of supporting and encouraging investors by providing a clear and
stable legal framework allowing simplistic procedures to reduce bureaucracy
(Abdmouleh et al. 2015). These energy policies mainly use indicators or indicators
to measure progress on green energy development and green economy as well as the
impact of human activities on the environment (Mundaca and Richter 2015).
According to the World Resources Institute (WRI 2015), between 1990 and 2012,
the EU28 significantly reduced its contribution to total global emissions including
LUCF, with a contribution of about 8.66% to total world emissions in 2012
compared to 15,14% in 1990, being located after the USA in 1990 after China and
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and implicitly in Romania.
9.4.3 European Union’s Targets on Energy and Climate
With the unanimous international recognition and recognition of the role of energy
in the global problems posed by the natural environment by the development of
socioeconomic activities, especially climate change, which subsequently reacts
negatively to the “society” complex and which, in the energy sector, is materialized
in the form of negative effects on the environmental factors generated by the type of
currently exploited energy resources and inefficiencies in the production, distribution, and use of energy in its various forms, the specialists in this field formulated
legislative policies and directions, imposing measures ameliorating paradoxical
relationships between the natural environment and economic growth. Zamfir et al.
(2016) argued the need to stimulate the implementation of renewable energy by
presenting advantages such as diminishing the dependence on imported energy,
ensuring energy security, improving the quality of life, creating jobs, increasing
competitiveness, and supporting sustainable development and, on the other hand, by
identifying current challenges such as the discontinuity of renewable energy generation, infrastructure that does not meet the needs of these energy sources, consistent
initial investment, low competitiveness, and degradation of the natural ecosystem
through pollution and biodiversity damage. At the same time, green energy development policies call for a significant improvement in energy efficiency in the context
of climate change, which in fact refers to energy saving by reducing consumption. In
order to substantiate these policies relating to the relationship between the natural
environment and the energy system in practice, simple or complex indicators are
used to monitor, assess, and estimate specific aspects of a general problem, such as
GHG emissions indicating a state of the significant environmental climate factor or
the environmental performance index, which reports the state of the environment at a
certain point in a given space. Two cases are exemplified in the field of energy,
energy consumption and low energy security, which can negatively influence both
the amount of atmospheric emissions that intensify climate change and the socioeconomic development of the medium and long term.
The importance of these policies adopted by each state generates an important
political message of supporting and encouraging investors by providing a clear and
stable legal framework allowing simplistic procedures to reduce bureaucracy
(Abdmouleh et al. 2015). These energy policies mainly use indicators or indicators
to measure progress on green energy development and green economy as well as the
impact of human activities on the environment (Mundaca and Richter 2015).
According to the World Resources Institute (WRI 2015), between 1990 and 2012,
the EU28 significantly reduced its contribution to total global emissions including
LUCF, with a contribution of about 8.66% to total world emissions in 2012
compared to 15,14% in 1990, being located after the USA in 1990 after China and
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