The transition to a climate-neutral Europe depends on a robust framework and clearly defined milestones. This is why the EU currently discusses the next climate target for the year 2040. The current legislative period with the new European Parliament and new Commission faces the task of agreeing on EU-wide implementation measures – at a time when many Member States remain focused on achieving the 2030 target.

During this event, we will examine the implications and challenges of the EU target for German climate policy.

• Where should it provide impetus at EU level?
• Which aspects of German climate policy need a coordinated approach and which ones could present a hindrance?
• How can the needs and concerns of both the economy and society be adequately addressed?

We want to discuss these and other questions with experts from different perspectives.

The evening is part of our FUTURE FORUM ECORNET event series. In this series, we debate current environmental and sustainability policy challenges – with a critical eye and in search of unconventional solutions.

About the Future Forum Ecornet event series

Future: The "future" has long since become a key concept in debates on environmental and sustainability policy. In the past, the discussion was dominated by scenarios of threat, whereas today it increasingly focuses on possibilities for shaping the future: What kind of world do we want to make possible for present and future generations?

Forum: Shaping an ecologically sustainable and socially just future, on the other hand, can only succeed through dialogue between politics, science, the economy and civil society. Ecornet aims to bring together the different actors and provide them with a forum to jointly address the social problems of our time.

Ecornet: Specific social problems require practical solutions. The aim of Ecornet is to actively shape and scientifically support the societal transformation towards sustainability. Thanks to their thematic and methodological diversity along with their work at the intersection of science and society, the eight Ecornet institutes provide answers to the pressing challenges of our time.