A strong national commitment to nuclear energy goes hand-in-hand with a weak performance on climate change targets, researchers at the University of Sussex and the Vienna School of International Studies have found. A new study of European countries, published in the journal Climate Policy, shows that the most progress towards reducing carbon emissions and increasing renewable energy sources – as set out in the EU’s 2020 Strategy – has been made by nations without nuclear energy or with plans to reduce it. Conversely, pro-nuclear countries have been much slower to implement wind, solar and hydropower technologies and to tackle emissions.
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