If it is to have a chance to contribute to achieving the Paris Agreement targets, the EU’s climate policy must be based on a different approach, that of the EU’s carbon budget out of the global carbon budget still available, in order for average planetary warming to be contained at less than 2°C, according to a study published on Wednesday 28 February by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament.
The study, which was commissioned by the group and carried out by Öko-Institut e.V.,...