EU members pledge 10 times the energy from offshore wind

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Leaders from four European Union countries met on Wednesday in Denmark around the goal of making the North Sea into Europe’s “Green Power Plant” by 2050. How? Germany, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands pledged to increase wind power use tenfold. Host Marco Werman spoke with Finn Mortensen, the executive director of State of Green. He’s based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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