As the 27 Heads of State or Government of the European Union discuss climate change next week (see EUROPE 12575/20), a coalition of 47 organisations including NGOs, businesses, local and regional authorities and investor groups sent a joint letter to the EU institutions and Member States on Thursday 8 October, asking them to adopt a more ambitious climate target for 2030.
They therefore call on the European co-legislators to “agree on” a target of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 55%, while indicating that some civil society organisations signatories to the letter advocate a 65% reduction.
According to these organisations, the EU should seek to achieve this objective through deep emission reductions, supported by additional measures “to remove emissions through Nature Based Solutions in line with the need to protect Europe's biodiversity”.
An increase in the ambition would “on one hand give a clear direction to the European economy, and on the other hand, protect citizens from future disruptions of worsening impacts of climate change”, the signatories finally believe.
See the letter: https://bit.ly/3lwc8am (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)