We are facing a climate emergency. Urgent action is needed. 

In 2015 the EU signed the international Paris climate agreement. 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 enough.

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, although WWF supports 2040.

This goal is to be enshrined in an EU climate law.

The law, now being discussed by the EU, must put climate action at the centre of the EU's green and just economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

• 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.