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Geothermal energy can provide 75 percent of all of the heating and cooling consumed in Europe by 2040 (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Is geothermal energy the climate fix everyone forgot?

In an upcoming session on Thursday (15 February), the European Parliament will see the EU commissioner for climate action, Wopke Hoekstra, defending the bloc's climate targets.

These recommend member states cut emissions by 90 percent by 2040.

Green groups have criticised the plan for lacking financial backing. And the far-right, represented by Sylvia Limmer, a German MEP and a member of the far-right nationalist party Alternative fur Deutschland, dubbed the targets "overly ambi...

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

Geothermal energy can provide 75 percent of all of the heating and cooling consumed in Europe by 2040 (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

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