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[en] During the health crisis, Europe stayed the course of its decarbonization ambitions: the 'Next Generation EU' plan, leading to the raising of 750 billion euros of common debt, was accompanied by conditions implying that 30 pc of the funds should be devoted to projects related to the fight against global warming. But, in the progress of the EU on the path of decarbonization, the military aggression of Russia in Ukraine has the effect of a 'return of the repressed': fossil energies are highly geopolitical matters, Europe is an old continent which extracts less and less of it from its subsoil and Russia is its main supplier, both for oil, coal and gas (and a major supplier of 'critical' ores for the production of renewable energy, batteries for electric vehicles, etc.). This crisis is forcing Europeans to urgently assess their ability to reduce these oil and gas flows, or even to put them under embargo to increase pressure on Russia, and, in the implementation of 'Fit for 55' (the objective of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 55 pc by 2030), to question the effects of a rapid deconstruction of these old links with Russia
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Durant la crise sanitaire, l'Europe a tenu le cap de ses ambitions de decarbonation: le plan 'Next Generation EU', conduisant a lever 750 milliards d'euros de dette commune, a ete assorti de conditions impliquant que 30 % des fonds soient consacres a des projets lies a la lutte contre le rechauffement climatique. Mais, dans la progression de l'UE sur le chemin de la decarbonation, l'agression militaire de la Russie en Ukraine fait effet de 'retour du refoule': les energies fossiles sont des matieres hautement geopolitiques, l'Europe est un vieux continent qui en extrait de moins en moins de son sous-sol et la Russie est son premier fournisseur, aussi bien pour le petrole, le charbon que le gaz (et un fournisseur majeur de minerais 'critiques' pour la production d'energie renouvelable, de batteries pour les vehicules electriques...). Cette crise impose aux Europeens d'evaluer dans l'urgence leur capacite a reduire ces flux de petrole et de gaz, voire a les mettre sous embargo pour accroitre la pression sur la Russie (ou leur capacite a subir une rupture d'approvisionnement a l'initiative de la partie russe). Et, dans la mise en oeuvre du Fit for 55 - l'objectif de diminuer de 55% nos emissions de gaz a effet de serre d'ici 2030 -, de s'interroger sur les effets d'une deconstruction rapide de ces 'liens fossiles' avec la RussieOriginal Title
Comment reduire notre dependance au gaz russe sans manquer l'objectif de decarbonisation?
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29 Mar 2022; 9 p; 17 refs.; Available from the INIS Liaison Officer for France, see the INIS website for current contact and E-mail addresses
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AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT, DECARBONIZATION, ELECTRIC BATTERIES, EMBARGOES, ENERGY POLICY, ENERGY SECURITY, ENERGY SUPPLIES, EUROPEAN UNION, FINANCING, FOSSIL FUELS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, METALS, POLITICAL ASPECTS, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SUPPLY DISRUPTION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TRADE
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