We are facing a climate emergency. We must act.
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 too low.
EU leaders have agreed to a climate-neutral Europe - zero net greenhouse gas emissions - by 2050. WWF supports EU climate neutrality by 2040.
The must increase its 2030 target to 65% emissions reductions, in line with climate science. The agreed 55% net reduction target is not enough.
The EU must also ensure the revised 2030 climate and energy laws boost EU climate action.
A climate law is now being discussed by the EU. This must contain the higher targets, and more.
"Reaching net zero emissions by 2040 in the EU is essential if we are to uphold the Paris Agreement and limit devastating climate change.”
Imke Lübbeke
Head of Climate and Energy
WWF European Policy Office
What WWF is doing
- a 65% emissions reduction target for 2030, zero net emissions by 2040, and a target for carbon sinks
- an independent expert body to scrutinise EU climate policy
- all EU policies to be required to align with EU climate action
- 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
Imke Luebbeke
Head, EU Climate and Energy Policy
Sarah Azau
Media & Communications Manager
+32 473 57 31 37
@SarahAzau
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This analysis by WWF and Carbon Market Watch looks at what needs to be improved in the strategy.