The IPCC AR6 makes clear: Already today the climate crisis threatens human and ecological systems, with those least responsible most at risk. To limit further escalation, the EUs highest energy priority must be a full, fast and fair phase-out of fossil fuels in a strategy aligned with the Paris Agreement, global biodiversity targets, and equity principles reaffirmed in the ICJ Advisory Opinion.
The EU must lead by adopting ambitious, binding national and EU energy targets: overachieving current goals, achieving at least 20% energy savings and 50% renewables by 2030, and halving energy use within a 100% renewable system by 2040 that protects people and nature. Globally, the EU should support clean energy access and just transitions in partner countries, ensuring alignment with SDGs and social justice.
Shockingly, the EU remains the worlds biggest fossil importer: the EU-US trade agreement promises to import fossil fuels worth $750Bn which runs counter to the global transition. The EU should adopt an ambitious, exclusively domestic 2040 target – preferably for climate neutrality by that date – without relying on questionable international credits, and submit a 2035 NDC by September. A credible NDC is essential for EUs global climate leadership.
Read the full submission to the consultation here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14817-EU-strategy-to-boost-global-climate-and-energy-transition/F3711414_en
