all Around the world are demonstrating to our children in the streets and demand that politicians do something about climate change. In response, the EU parliament passed klimatnödläge. The EUROPEAN commission will today, on Wednesday to present its proposal for a climate change act for the whole of the EUROPEAN union, which will complement the existing legislation in the field of energy and climate change.
The initiative, which the greens welcome, and we fought to the last term of office. In Sweden, the green Party has been of critical importance in order to get the English klimatlagen in place. However, the climate change act, it must be filled with concrete content, and are reinforced by supportive policies, in order to make a real impact.
In other words, a shared goal for 2050 is to klimatlagen not be able to force member states to reduce its emissions to net-zero. Furthermore, it is proposed a linear reduction by 2050, which is in line with the paris peace agreement to be reviewed every five years by the so-called ‚delegated acts‘.
This is a type of a piece of legislation would allow the commission to determine a new target, without the participation of the member states and the EUROPEAN parliament. The likelihood that the member states agree to hand over power to the commission is, unfortunately, very small.
We hope that the information that was leaked from the european commission turns out to be wrong.
< A target for the EU to become carbon-neutral by 2050 may sound ambitious, but it is far from enough. What is needed is a tough, binding targets for 2030, as it is essential for the paris agreement to reduce emissions significantly over the next ten years. To focus on a target as far away as the year 2050 is stealing the attention away from what needs to be done now so that future generations won't have to pay the price for our lack of ability to take action. Therefore, the EUROPEAN union's climate change act, does not only aim for the year 2050. The law also needs to be a non-binding target for 2030 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent relative to 1990 levels. It's the smallest thing that science calls for us to be able to Parisavtalets case.
This is a key concept in the reports of the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change. Just as it is for the central government is required for a klimatbudget that we are not going to ”spend” more carbon dioxide than the climate can handle. By working with a carbon budget will make it easier to evaluate policy, within the framework of the paris agreement.
this is A problem that is, however, still remains, even if we do get a team, with a climate target for 2030, and a carbon budget is that ”one swallow does not make a summer.” A climate change act, in order to be successful, be surrounded by supportive structures and policies that create economic incentives for a competitive and fair klimatomställning. The roadmap, which the european commission has recently proposed to put on, and to make the EU economy sustainable – the green of the deal are, unfortunately, doesn’t measure up as a supporting structure, in this context, needs to be strengthened considerably.
instead, we need a real green new deal policies, plans and funding which will take us to our climate goals. The primary focus of the green transformation must be to phase out the fossil fuel to 100 percent renewable energy in the EUROPEAN energy system. Greens therefore call on the commission to take the initiative in the following items, which are necessary if we are to cope with the challenge of climate change, as well as make the EU globally competitive.
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A common EUROPEAN approach to member states by the year 2025, to phase out all forms of subsidy for fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. Each and every year, subsidized the fossil energy sources in the EU, with a 550% increase. In such a warped financial landscape of competing renewable energy sources on an equal footing with fossil fuels, be it in EUROPE or in a global scale. The phasing-out of fossil fuel subsidies in both the EU’s general budget, and at the national level, in line with a G20 decision in 2009, and the g-7 decision in 2016.
2 < A phasing out of all subsidies, meaning that we will have to put a fair price on the fossil fuel, by raising the price of carbon more in the emissions trading scheme. , If the largest emitters in addition to the transportation, aviation, marine, energy and heavy industry are also included in the trade and pay a fair price for their emissions, this would generate 280 billion in revenue to the UNION, on an annual basis.
3. We also have to impose a carbon tax on imports from countries that do not comply with the paris agreement. , It means that our foreign policy and any trade agreement must be klimatsäkras in order to promote global climate justice.
4. We need to climate proof the EU budget, the EU’s investment and to ensure that other laws do not contradict the EU’s climate change objectives. , but rather to promote a fair and equitable klimatomställning where no one is left behind. Of the 118 million EUROPEAN citizens are living at or below the poverty line, who don’t have any margins, it will not be affected by most, and instead the polluters have to pay.
a 5 – the Cap needs to be placed on the EU agriculture is becoming an effective tool in the fight for the climate, and the diversity of life , in order to the EUROPEAN union in a sustainable way, while ensuring food and energy security in the changing geo-political landscape.
. Right now, there is a period of intensive negotiations on the EU budget. We know that the kolberoende countries, such as Poland, the call for assistance and extra resources to go along with a goal of carbon neutrality by the year 2050.
How the budget will affect those member states with national climate change targets for 2030, and thus also of the EUROPEAN union’s contribution to the UN’s annual climate summit, which will be held in Glasgow, scotland, Uk, 9 to 19 november. To this day, which is considered to be the most important thing since the paris agreement was created in 2015, which will, in turn, is likely to determine, with the agreement of success. In Glasgow, scotland, countries which have adopted the paris peace agreement, greatly increasing the level of their climate commitments, if we are going to be able to achieve the goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees, with a focus on the 1.5 ° c by 2100.
the EUROPEAN union and its member states should be given time to adopt an ambitious position at the climate change summit, it is essential, therefore, that the klimatlagen is already present as a goal for 2030.
We hope that the information that was leaked from the european commission turns out to be false, and that the commission’s chair, Ursula von der Leyen, will present a proposal for an ambitious target for 2030, and the content that is able to deliver on paris agreement. Otherwise, the history of the EUROPEAN union’s new climate change act, is to be as tragic as the story of the emperor’s new clothes.
he said that in the EUROPEAN parliament they will fight for klimatlagen, not as a collective symbolic of the illusion in which no-one has the courage to challenge the content, to the point of reality and what is actually required in terms of political decision-making and action for climate change and the future of our children.
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