Energy ministry-led committee working on NECP revisions

An inter-ministerial committee headed by the energy ministry is continuing work on revisions to the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP), the effort’s aim being to achieve the European Commission’s more ambitious climate change targets, as stipulated in the EU’s Fit for 55 package, striving for a 55 percent reduction of carbon emissions by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.

The committee has lined up meetings with top-ranked officials at related ministries, energypress sources have informed.

Formulas calculating the parameters of the revised Fit for 55 road map are expected to be implemented by the summer.

Besides the revised 2030 targets, the country’s new NECP will include climate-change targets for 2040 as well as energy-mix and energy-efficiency revisions that will be required for the achievement of climate neutrality by 2050, the same sources informed.