NGO Briefing: increased EU climate ambition +impacts on Member States

19 January 2012

This briefing, prepared by Climate Action Network Europe, WWF and Greenpeace, outlines the NGOs’ response and recommendations to this paper.

The European Commission is due to publish a working paper entitled “Analysis of options to move beyond 20% greenhouse gas emission reductions: Member State results”. The latest draft of the paper outlines the costs and benefits for individual EU member states enhancing their climate action to a collective 30 percent emission reduction target for 2020. It concludes that increasing the EU climate ambition will deliver great financial, health and environmental benefits for all member states, including €7bn extra government revenues per year from a reinvigorated European carbon market. It will also propose a series of options to accelerate clean energy investments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

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 NGO Briefing on EU Commission paper: increased EU climate ambition +impacts on Member States