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charges of hypocrisy of the coalition on environmental issues that critics say the documents show Britain yielded to pressure groups fossil fuel

The government has tried to soften the main environmental regulations in Brussels, despite touting its commitment to environmental issues in the country, leaked documents show.

documents seen by the Guardian, show British officials repeatedly trying to avoid the adoption of EU standards in energy efficiency, reduction of proposals and voluntary not required in many cases. In addition, the UK has tried several times to ensure that the EU does not adopt a new target for renewable energy.

are important because they indicate that Ed Davey, Secretary of Energy since February, gave his blessing to the lobbying efforts of his predecessor Chris Huhne. These efforts by the government with the support of British six major energy companies, according to documents obtained under other rules of freedom of information.

two issues remain key to plans to reduce European emissions of greenhouse gases - the government's position in Europe disagree with fanfare in recent weeks by the energy bill "green." The ministers described the bill, the centerpiece of the claim to be "the greenest government ever," as generators of 110 billion pounds in low-carbon infrastructure investments and energy efficient to United States United Kingdom in the largest reorganization of the market since privatization in the 1980s.

The current objective of the EU's renewable energy - to produce 20% of energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar - expires in 2020 and so far it there is nothing to replace it. However, having a fixed lens is considered crucial to create the necessary certainty for investors upstream technologies such as solar, wind and tide, the current goal is credited to stimulate a significant increase in renewable energy

renewable energy producers and conservationists fear that without a similar goal for 2030, the urge to invest in renewable energy will be lost to fossil fuels such as gas.

Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency, told the Guardian: "It would jeopardize investment in renewable energy, if we rely too much on gas."

In a confidential document, the Council of the European Union on the draft proposals on energy in 2050, the United Kingdom tried to delete a reference to a potential target for renewable energy 30 % by 2030, replacing the much vaguer wording "a significantly higher proportion of renewables in the energy mix." Elsewhere in the document, which is dated April 23, 2012, the United Kingdom tried to remove the word "urgent".

The paper shows that Davey, a Liberal Democrat, opposed a new EU target on renewable energy since taking office in early February. In a previous study shows that the government's attempts to dilute the target for renewable energy in the EU - revealed by The Guardian in March - was prepared largely under his predecessor, Chris Huhne

For example, Eon contrary, "an obligation approach" encourages consumers to improve their efficiency, and rejected a proposal for more efficient energy production, waste heat setting new facilities must be recycled for heating buildings. Other companies, such as SSE, RWE Npower, EDF and Centrica were also opposed to the rules governing the reuse of heat, although Scottish Power has suggested that the proposal could be adapted to exclude sites that are ineffective or impractical . Most companies are not willing to tolerate binding obligations to reduce energy waste.