2021 Policy
This regulation, adopted in June 2021, legally enshrined the EU's 2050 climate neutrality goal.
What is the European Climate Law?
This country is the reason for the energy crisis
What is Russia?
This is the reason some argued the 2040 climate target was watered down.
What are carbon credits?
Fit for 55 increased the EU’s legally binding 2030 emissions-reduction target from the earlier level to this percentage below 1990 levels.
What is 55?
This is the rating CAT has given the the EU’s policies and action against modelled domestic pathways.
What is insufficient?
The Climate Law raised the 2030 emissions reduction target from "at least" 40% to "at least" this percentage.
What is 55%?
This controversial legislation was the EU response to the energy crisis
What is REPowerEU?
This country, which is reliant on domestic coal, backed by Hungary, delayed agreement on the 2030 target until December 2020.
What is Poland?
This mechanism requires importers of certain carbon-intensive goods (steel, cement, fertilizer, etc.) to account for the carbon emissions embedded in those imports.
What is CBAM?
If all countries were to follow the EU’s approach, warming temperatures could reach up to this temperature.
What is 3 degrees celsius?
This proposed mechanism would tax the carbon content of imported steel, aluminium, cement and electricity.
What is the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)?
These countries called for a reform of the electricity market during the energy crisis
What are France and Spain?
This man led the EPP response to the 2035 ban on gasoline powered cars.
Who is Manfred Weber?
This is the partial reimbursement mechanism for addressing social justice concerns and cost burdens associated with climate action
What is the Social Climate Fund?
According to the CAT, what type of progress is the EU making on phasing out coal use in the power sector.
What is slow progress?
The Commission proposed a second one of these systems for buildings and transport, paired with a Social Climate Fund.
What is an emissions trading system (ETS)?
This result is one of the long term risks mentioned in Homeyer et. al
What is Carbon Lock in?
This movement orchestrated fuel tax protests in France following worries about extending carbon pricing to transport and buildings.
What are the yellow vests?
This plan amended several fit for 55 proposals in response to phasing out of fossil fuel imports from Russia.
What is REPowerEU?
According to the CAT, buildings account for this percentage of the EU’s total GHG emissions.
What is 13%?
The Climate Law requires the Commission to propose this target, along with an indicative 2030-50 emissions budget, by 2024.
What is a 2040 greenhouse gas emission reduction target?
These countries turned to coal as a “short term” solution for addressing prospective gas shortages caused by Russian supply reductions.
What are the Netherlands and Germany?
The authors use this four word phrase to describe the EU’s long standing climate policy
What is “internationally leading, but insufficient”?
Up to this many percentage points of the 55% target can be offset through LULUCF credits.
What is 2.2%?
This EU policy expands carbon pricing to buildings and road transport.
What is EU ETS II?