Energy policy of Belgium

At the federal level, Minister Paul Magnette is in charge of politics of global warming.

Belgium takes part in the European Union Emission Trading Scheme and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

[3] According to the IEA statistics the fuels of electricity consumption in 2009 were: 53,8% nuclear, 40,8% fossil, 7,4% renewable and 2% export of production.

[4] In October 2009, the final version of GEMIX report commissioned by Minister Paul Magnette was published.

[2] Belgium was an exception in the central Europe by not having feed-in tariff FiT for wind energy in 2007, like e.g. the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, France and Portugal.

[2] Wind electricity production per inhabitant in 2009 was in Belgium 93 kWh/person compared to Spain 794, Germany 461, the Netherlands 278, Britain 138 and France 121.