Fossil fuel phase-out

And our goal is to be using 27 percent of renewable energy by 2020, Antic said on Monday, Beta agency reported.

He told the Energy and Climate Change conference, organized by the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, that Serbia's contribution to the fight against climate change should be strong, but sustainable in terms of economic capacity.

ING by the end of 2025 will stop funding any utility company which relies on coal for more than 5 percent of its energy, the Dutch bank said on Dec. 12.

Twenty countries and two U.S. states have joined an international alliance to phase out coal from power generation before 2030, environment ministers said on Nov. 16.

A total of 158 power plants with an investment value of $5 billion were opened in Ankara in an official ceremony on Nov. 7, attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 

Speaking at the opening, Erdoğan stressed the importance of nuclear energy, renewable resources and coal reserves for Turkey's energy sector. 

German utilities RWE, Vattenfall and Mibrag will start reducing their coal-fired power output at the start of winter 2016, shifting this capacity instead to the country's power reserve as part of a plan to cut carbon emissions, the government said.