Seven NGOs (Birdlife, Climate Action Network Europe, Carbon Market Watch, the European Environmental Bureau, Greenpeace, Transport & Environment and the WWF) sent a letter to the President of the European Commission on Thursday 26 November, asking her to reconsider the roadmap for the upcoming review of the EU’s Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) (2018/842).
The ESR, whose purpose is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from sectors that are not covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), sets binding annual emission reduction targets for each EU country for the period 2021-2030.
Ahead of the review of the ESR in June 2021, the Commission has submitted a roadmap for public consultation that includes three options.
The NGOs that have signed the letter believe, however, that the three options “would seriously damage the EU’s climate architecture and undermine emission reduction policies”.
The NGOs stress that repealing the Regulation (option 1) and reducing its scope (option 3) as a result of extending the ETS “are unacceptable” options.
The NGOs believe that options of this kind “reduce incentives for effective national measures”, and regret that the Commission did not include an option that “maintains the current architecture and raises the ambition of the ETS, the ESR and the LULUCF Regulation”.
The letter can be found at: https://bit.ly/3q043O2 (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)