From fires to melting glaciers and droughts, it is clear we are facing a climate emergency. The decade up to 2019 was the hottest ever recorded. Urgent action is needed. 

In 2015, 195 countries, including the EU, signed the Paris climate agreement. In Paris we committed to keeping global heating well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to keep it to 1.5° C.

The EU’s climate and energy targets are not in line with these goals.

It is not enough to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030; we need to urgently increase the EU 2030 target to 65% emissions reductions, in line with climate science. 

The 32% renewables target and 32.5% energy efficiency targets for 2030 are also far too low. 

EU leaders have agreed to a climate-neutral Europe - meaning zero net greenhouse gas emissions - by 2050. WWF believes that the EU should aim to reach zero net emissions by 2040 to uphold the Paris Agreement and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

• the 2030 climate and energy targets to be made more ambitious - including a 65% emissions reductions target
• a strong EU mid-century strategy which aims to reach zero net emissions by 2040
• an ambitious industrial decarbonisation policy;
• EU countries to phase out fossil fuels and their subsidies rapidly, beginning with coal;
• finance for clean technologies, for the just transition, and for adaptation, loss and damage and scaled up climate action.