Romania is among the countries that reduce the average carbon dioxide emissions in Europe, with 3.8 tons per capita emissions, said on Thursday, Răzvan Nicolescu, member of the general council of the European Institute for Technology and Innovation.

“It seems very important to me in the next period to be a little braver,” Nicolescu said in his speech, according to Agerpres.

He detailed that “we have 24% renewable energy at the moment, in our energy mix. There is no country in Central and Eastern Europe that has such a percentage. ”

“We can even compare ourselves with advanced countries in the European Union. Take for example the Netherlands, the land of windmills, as it was known worldwide. It has 14% renewable energy (…) We are the only country in Central and Eastern Europe that aims for more than 30%. Alone, from afar. Our Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian neighbors talk a lot, but in reality, on paper, their plans look different, these things need to be known. And if we don’t tell them, then it’s hard for them to be known,” Nicolescu pointed out.

At the same time, he stated that “only one European country is better than us, namely Sweden. Sweden has 3.2 tons of emissions (CO2 – n.r.) per capita, we have 3.8, according to World Bank data.”

Nicolescu stressed that “we are among those who pull down the European average for emissions a lot. And we don’t compare ourselves with anyone in the region, the Bulgarians have 5 and something (tons of emissions per capita), Hungary 4 and something, Poland 7, the Czech Republic 6, double compared to us.”