Posted on January, 23 2014

WWF's EU office compared the two White Papers issued by the European Commission on Climate and Energy policies (2007 and 2014).

These were the results:

- 2007: 49 mentions of ‘climate change’
- 2014: 3 mentions of ‘climate change’

- 2007: 4 mentions of ‘competitiveness’ + ‘competition’ + ‘competitive’
- 2014: 43 mentions of ‘competitiveness’ + ‘competition’ + ‘competitive’

We used the online tool Word Cloud for this work.

Sources:
[1] Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. "Limiting Global Climate Change to 2 degrees Celsius. The way ahead for 2020 and beyond" (2007)

[2] Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. "A policy framework for climate and energy in the period from 2020 to 2030" (2014)


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