Robust Review and Ratcheting Up Targets – EU Climate Policies after 2020

Publication: Report
Citation: Meyer-Ohlendorf, Nils 2017: EU Climate Policies after 2020: Robust Review and Ratcheting Up Targets. Ecologic Institute, Berlin.

The Paris Agreement states that Parties will scale up their commitments with every consecutive nationally determined contribution. A new paper by Ecologic Institute shows how EU legislation can help implement this requirement. The paper is available for download.

The EU Emission Budget and its Implications for EU Climate Action

22 January 2018
Dr. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf

Publication:Report

Estimates of the EU's greenhouse gas emission budgets for the rest of the century vary considerably but have one thing in common: The EU's emission budget is very small and shrinking rapidly. If the EU's emission budgets were based only on least-costs considerations, it would range between meager 50 Gt (in 1.5°scenarios) or 90 Gt (in 2°C scenarios) for the period 2020 and 2100. With current annual emissions of about 4 Gt, the EU would have used up its 1.5°C budget by about 2032. These new Ecologic Institute report is available for download.

EU Greenhouse Gas Emission Budget

Implications for EU Climate Policies

Year 2018

Publication:Document

On 20 July 2016 the European Commission published its legislative proposal for an Effort Sharing Regulation. A paper from Ecologic Institute provides comments on the Commission's proposal. The comments are available for download.

Commission Proposal for an Effort Sharing Regulation: Comments

Year 2016

Project

Ecologic Institute continues to advise the German Federal Ministry for the Environment on the updating of EU climate and energy policy after 2020. In this project, Ecologic Institute developed options and formulation proposals for concrete legal texts and initiatives of European climate and energy policy - through a number of expert opinions, short studies, workshops and ad hoc support services.

EU Energy and Climate Policy after 2020

Jul 2015 - Mar 2018

Language: English
Authorship: Dr. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf
Credits: with contributions from: Ralph Bodle, Matthias Duwe, Benjamin Görlach
Funding: Ministère de l'Environnement, de l'Energie et de la Mer, France
Year: 2017
Dimension: 22 pp.
Project: EU Energy and Climate Policy after 2020
Project ID: 2120
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

1.   Summary
2.   Introduction
3.   Long term reduction targets: backbone for review and target distribution
4.   Where best to regulate review and ratcheting up of EU climate targets?
5.   Timing of the review and increasing targets
6.   Long term target
6.1.   Explicit long term target in the CPR
6.2.   Explicit long term target in the ETS
6.3.   Long term target under the Governance Regulation
7.   Review and ratcheting up of targets
7.1.   Review and ratcheting up under the CPR
7.2.   Review and ratcheting up under the ETS
7.3.   Review and ratcheting up under the Governance Regulation
8.   Review and Ratcheting up of Targets: Graphical overview
Keywords: Climate

Energy

climate policy, ETS, market stability, effort sharing, 2030, post-2020, renewables, energy market, EU, European Union

Europe

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EU Energy and Climate Policy after 2020

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