Fostering the Use of Clean Coal Technologies

Europe's energy strategy in the new millennium must focus primarily on managing the growing dependence on energy in the context of sustainable development. Security of supply has taken on a new urgency with the recent volatility of oil prices and is likely to be strongly affected by wider developments in energy markets, including liberalisation and environmental developments. To develop a strategy which can reconcile security of supply with other objectives which include the enlargement of the European Union, the functioning of the internal energy market and action to combat climate change, the European Commission presented a Green paper on this subject in November 2000.