The European offshore wind industry needs an area equivalent to the size of Ireland to install enough turbines to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, a target for most EU members, a leading industry group said in a report.
Fighting climate change is a top priority for the European Commission’s new head Ursula von der Leyen, who has set out a “European Green Deal” intended to achieve “climate neutrality” – adding no greenhouse gases to the atmosphere beyond what can be absorbed – by 2050.
