Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for climate change, has said she is seeking to extend the EU’s 2020 renewable energy targets to 2030.

In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, she appears to be making the move following intensive lobbying from the gas industry which is urging the Commission to consider gas production over renewable energies, according to the Guardian.

“We should be discussing a renewable energy target for 2030. We need to have ambitious targets. It would be one way to send a long-term price signal for renewable energy – that renewable energy is not just going to stop growing after 2020,” she said.

Read the full interview here and return to this blog for further reporting soon…