Several European energy companies have pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050.
A total of 61 electricity suppliers from across the continent presented EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs with a declaration at a meeting in Brussels yesterday (March 18th).
The declaration includes a commitment by all companies to work towards achieving a carbon neutral power supply by 2050.
Commissioner Piebalgs welcomed the document, suggesting that a new approach to climate change is needed.
"If we want to win the battle against climate change we need to change completely the way we think energy production, consumption and development," he said.
The EU's Strategic Energy Review included a plan to decarbonise the electricity supply throughout the region by 2050.
"This will only happen with a coordinated agenda for research and technological development, regulation, investment and infrastructure development," Commissioner Piebalgs explained. "Today's commitment gets the European Electricity Industry on board this ambitious programme."
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