The upcoming revision of the EU ETS directive presents the opportunity to raise the ambitions, aligning with the objective of climate neutrality by 2050 and the increased 2030 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target. ZEP believes that urgent action needs to be taken to put the EU on a cost-efficient pathway towards net-zero by 2050.
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Supporting Europe’s 2050 climate targets through Carbon Capture and Storage
On 2 June, the Zero Emissions Platform and the Global CCS Institute co-organised a webinar as part of EU Green Week 2021, focusing on how CCS can support reaching a climate-neutral EU by 2050. With expert speakers joining from industry and policy, the webinar considered opportunities and challenges for CCS projects in Europe, incentivising CCS, the important role of cross-border European CO2 transport and storage infrastructure, and assessing up-and-coming regions, well placed to support CCS and climate neutrality targets.
ZEP comments on the European Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance delegated act
ZEP comments on the European Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance adopted delegated act.
Since the establishment of the technical expert group on sustainable finance (TEG), ZEP has provided advice to the TEG’s technical report and has given input and submitted consultation responses to the European Commission on the regulation on the delegated acts on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Net Zero by 2050
Hydrogen for Europe Study
PRESS RELEASE – Zero Emissions Platform welcomes agreement on European Climate Law, supporting a climate-neutral Europe by 2050
On 21 April – just ahead of Earth Day and the United States Leaders Summit on Climate, which the European Commission and Council will attend – the European Parliament’s and Council of the European Union’s negotiators have reached a provisional agreement on the European Climate Law, which proposes a legally binding target of net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050.