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    MEPs confirm deal on climate neutrality by 2050

    npsBy nps25 June 2021 No Comments3 Mins Read
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    (BRUSSELS) – The European Parliament endorsed the EU’s new Climate Law Thursday, raising the EU’s 2030 emissions reductions target from 40% to at least 55%, 57% with the contribution from new carbon sinks.

    The law transforms the European Green Deal’s political commitment to EU climate neutrality by 2050 into a binding obligation. This gives European citizens and businesses the legal certainty and predictability they need to plan for this transition. After 2050, the EU will aim for negative emissions.

    The new EU Climate Law increases the EU’s target for reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 from 40% to at least 55%, compared to 1990 levels. Additionally, an upcoming proposal from the Commission on the LULUCF Regulation to regulate GHG emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry, will increase EU carbon sinks and will hence de facto increase the 2030 EU’s target to 57%.

    The Commission will make a proposal for a 2040 target at the latest six months after the first global review in 2023 foreseen in the Paris Agreement. In line with Parliament’s proposal, the Commission will publish the maximum amount of GHG emissions estimated the EU can emit until 2050 without endangering the EU’s commitments under the Agreement. This so-called ‘GHG budget’ will be one of the criteria to define the EU’s revised 2040 target.

    By 30 September 2023, and every five years thereafter, the Commission will assess the collective progress made by all EU countries, as well as the consistency of national measures, towards the EU’s goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050.

    While she would have preferred to go even further, Parliament’s rapporteur Jytte Guteland, MEP said she was proud that the EU finally has a climate law, which was “a good deal based on science that will make a big difference. The EU must now reduce emissions more in the next decade than it has in the previous three decades combined, and we have new and more ambitious targets that can inspire more countries to step up.”

    The deal is expected to be approved by the Council shortly. The Regulation will then be published in the Official Journal and enter into force 20 days later. The Commission plans to present a series of proposals on 14 July 2021 in order for the EU to be able to reach the more ambitious 2030-target.

    Further information, European Parliament

    The adopted text will become available here (24.06.2021)

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