The concept assumes that the European Union is to be climate neutral by 2050. The proposal to regulate the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union introducing a legal framework to achieve the goal of climate neutrality has been named in the document European Climate Law.
This is a consequence of the European Commission adopting a European Green Deal plan to make economic activity independent of greenhouse gas emissions so that the European Union has a neutral impact on the climate by the middle of the 21st century. As a result of the Paris climate agreement, which calls for maintaining global temperature rise preferably below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The EU’s goal of climate neutrality by 2050 should be implemented collectively by all member countries. These countries, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission should take the necessary measures to enable its implementation. The goal will be achieved through the legislative package proposed under the European Green Deal.
Brussels will also regularly monitor the implementation of the climate neutrality objective and assess progress, responding as necessary to the treaties. It is worth recalling that they leave the right to decide on the shape of the energy mix to the Member States, but allow for pushing environmental regulations at EU level. Every five years, from September 30, 2023, the Commission will examine the “collective progress” of all member countries on the basis of their reports from other sectors and provide its recommendations. The countries will then show in their reports how they responded to the recommendations “in a spirit of solidarity”. The assessment of the state of implementation of the climate neutrality objective is to be included in the annual document on the State of the Energy Union.
The purpose of the regulation is to accelerate changes in favor of climate neutrality. Climate policy in member states will have to accelerate. There is no question, however, of the tools enabling the Commission to enforce the climate neutrality objective at national level.
Source: biznesalert.pl