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CLIMATE & ENERGY
We are facing a climate emergency.
In 2015 the EU signed the Paris climate agreement, and in 2021 the Glasgow climate pact. Countries committed to try and keep temperature rise to 1.5° C.
The EU's 55% net emissions reduction target is not enough.
It needs be at least 65% real emissions reductions by 2030
The EU must ensure the revised 2030 climate and energy laws - the 'Fit for 55%' package - boost climate action in line with the science.
This must be done in a socially fair way - WWF's asks.
"Reaching net zero emissions by 2040 in the EU is essential if we are to uphold the Paris Agreement and limit devastating climate change.”
Alex Mason
Head of Climate and Energy
WWF European Policy Office
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What WWF is doing
WWF is advocating and campaigning for:
- a 65% emissions reduction target for 2030, zero net emissions by 2040, and a target for carbon sinks
- all EU policies to be aligned with science
- all EU policies to be required to align with EU climate law
- just transition funding to depend on decarbonisation plans & deadlines
- an ambitious industrial decarbonisation policy, with only targeted use of renewable hydrogen allowed;
- EU countries to phase out fossil fuels and their subsidies, ads and sponsorship rapidly, beginning with coal;
- finance for clean technologies, for adaptation, loss and damage and scaled up climate action.
Contacts
Alex Mason
Head of Climate & Energy
+32 494 762 763
@1alexmason
Florian Cassier
Communications Officer, Climate
+32 479 33 92 11
@FCassier
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Position paper: Accelerating offshore wind deployment in a nature friendly way (August 2022)
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Joint NGO statement: Protecting nature and fighting climate change must go hand in hand
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NGO statement on CBAM for ECOFIN Council, March 2022
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Joint NGO statement on EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism proposal (December 2021)
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Strategic spending: how the EU Emissions Trading System can fund fair climate action
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WWF position paper on reform of the EU LULUCF Regulation (July 2021)
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Position paper: Nature protection and offshore renewable energy in the EU (May 2021)
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Making the EU Emissions Trading System fit for 55% (April 2021)
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EU climate neutrality by 2040 - can hydrogen help?
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