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The European Commission Strategy
The European Commission Strategy
The European Commission(EC) serves as the European Union(E.U)’s executive body and is a representation of all European interest and not of individual nations. The commission’s main roles are to set up action priorities and objectives, propose council and parliament legislation and manage the implementation of E.U policies and budget. The E.C also enforces European law in conjunction with the Court of Justice. In the negotiation of trade agreement outside Europe, the E.C also represents Europe.In 2010, the E.C established a new policy on energy technology for Europe(Set-plan strategy). This was the plan aimed at accelerating the deployment and development of low carbon technologies that are cost effective. The plan had measures that touched on planning, international cooperation in the energy technology field and implementation. The plans were deemed important by the E.U as a measure to reduce the level of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. It was idealized around reducing the high rate of climate change, that is majorly fueled by carbon that has a lot of adverse effects on the ozone layer.Before the E.C came up with the Strategic Plan, individual countries had raised concerns over the level of increasing carbon in the atmosphere. The E.C but spoke out their desire. These countries had created measures within their boundaries, to help counter the challenge of climate change. But such measures had little impact because the carbon emitted from another country, are easily blown by the wind into any country. Not all countries had adopted the measures that attempted to curb this universal problem. When the E.C came in, all countries within the jurisdiction of E.U were expected to comply, thus making the process simpler.SWOT is an analytical method used to discover and categorize significant external and internal factors in a particular arena. Internal factors in this case are weaknesses and strengths, and external factors are threats and opportunities. Having pointed out these factors, strategies are then developed to improve either on strengths, develop the opportunities, counteract threats and eliminate flaws.To reduce the level of carbon emission into the atmosphere, the E.C encourages a high level of incubated innovation. It’s through innovation that they tend to come up with creations of man that do not harm the environment as much. This is a strength of the plan because innovation not only makes life better and sweeter, it also increases the level of trading thus a positive impact on the continental economy.However, when the plan emphasizes on materials manufactured with low carbon content, it creates a weak link in its policies. This is because carbon serves the purpose of strengthening the materials, and it’s also cheap. Any material that will be brought in to replace it is probably more expensive thus the cost of production will escalate. Industries will also have to close down in large numbers because their areas of specialization will have been banned.The plan also has opportunities that will come with it. Initiatives like the bio-energy and the electricity grid will come with more job opportunities and will also increase the level of interests of investors in the continent. The cash in will be massive.The strategy also threatens to send the European economy down the spiral. The scores of companies that will close . As a result will lead to joblessness and the level of trading might go low. The new creations/ innovations might also not be as effective in solving the human problems.This plan might fail because no country is that willing and ready to dump their industrial productions and motor operating systems for theories and innovations yet untested. And when this happens, the practice by a few selected countries united in an attempt to make life less carbon contaminated, will have no impact. This is because the ozone is one and what happens in Europe affects what will happen in the Americas.Initiatives like the bio-energy, the solar and wind initiatives, smart cities, electricity grid and even the carbon capture, storage and transport initiatives are already bearing fruit. Some companies have also used innovation to create devices that have been installed at the company chimneys. Such machineries serve to capture and mix carbon with oxygen to form the carbon IV oxide. This compound of carbon has no effect on the ozone. These are the indicators of the project.
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