Implementing New EU Climate Targets
Why Member State responsibility must continue
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Meyer-Ohlendorf, Nils 2021: Implementing new EU climate targets – Why Member State responsibility must continue. Berlin: Ecologic Institute.
Legally binding reduction targets for Member States have been the backbone of EU climate policies since 2009. At a moment where the EU increases its climate ambition significantly, reduction targets for Member States must continue. They should be the unequivocal starting point of reforms to make EU climate rules fit for the EU's new climate targets – a new Ecologic Institute policy brief explains why.
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English
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European Climate Foundation (ECF), International - Published by
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Ecologic Institute, Germany - Year
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- 5 pp.
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Europe
What matters for the climate is the total amount of emissions and removals over time and corresponding levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration. The current focus on reductions achieved as of a specific moment in time disguises this. Emission budgets... Read more
Meyer-Ohlendorf, Nils 2020: Why the EU needs an emission budget. Berlin: Ecologic Institute.