Bogdan Tudorache

The environment and climate are not central elements in the parties’ vision, reveals a Greenpeace analysis.

“One conclusion is that the strategic objectives of the European Green Deal and the Paris Climate Agreement have not been internalized, together with scientific data on climate and biodiversity. The environment and climate change are mainly addressed by sector (energy, forests, water, etc.) and not integrated, or as cross-cutting strategic areas,” says the environmental organization.

There is also an exception, “by the extensive approach to the subject and the number of progressive measures, even if not as a central element of the political proposal”, of a single political platform.

Greenpeace found that political parties have the most problematic proposals on the energy transition, given the goals of the Paris Agreement. Most parties propose massive investments in gas, mainly offshore, the construction of Cernavoda reactors 3 and 4 and technologically immature solutions, such as those based on hydrogen, as priorities for the transition.

The status of renewable energies varies, between the acceptance of European targets without concrete measures in this regard and proposals to increase the national target. In general, it can be seen that the perspective of the state is accepted as a regulator and facilitator, not as a direct investor in the sector, which could have been, according to Greenpeace, a solution to ensure the increase of the share of renewables in the national energy mix.

In addition, biodiversity (protected areas, waters, including forests) is almost entirely missing as a strategic concern, with one exception, of a single platform.