…but big gaps remain across the board.

Good progress, but let’s keep going, especially in those states that still have a long way to catch up.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Several European countries hit some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 a decade early, a study has found, but big gaps remain across the board.

The study reveals “systematic progress” towards reaching the goal, the researchers wrote, “with differences between individual EU countries clearly decreasing”.

The European Commission has set target values for three of them, while for the rest, the researchers took the level reached by the top 10% of EU countries in 2015 as a proxy.

Spain, Malta and Portugal, for instance, hit the target for the average amount of energy a person consumes in a household.

In recent years, the EU has sped up its shift from fossil fuels to cleaner sources of energy as part of a bid to reduce its reliance on Russian gas and become the world’s first climate-neutral continent.

On Wednesday, the European Commission recommended member states take voluntary measures to keep their gas demand down, aiming for a 15% cut from their average level in the five years before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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