{"id":23551,"date":"2021-02-05T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/?p=23551"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:40:42","slug":"eu-climate-neutrality-by-2050-is-not-paris-compatible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/en\/news-en\/news-from-the-world\/2021\/02\/05\/eu-climate-neutrality-by-2050-is-not-paris-compatible\/","title":{"rendered":"EU climate neutrality by 2050 is not Paris-compatible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hans-Josef Fell is a former member of the German Bundestag (1998-2013) and currently President of the Energy Watch Group (EWG), an energy think tank based in Berlin. Dr Thure <\/em>Traber is the EWG\u2019s Chief Researcher.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Paris Climate Agreement was adopted on 12 December 2015. In it, the signatory states pledged to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5\u00b0C, if possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five years later, climate change has turned into a climate crisis, and despite increasing protests for more climate protection, politics remains far behind the necessities of adequate climate policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate neutrality (net zero) by 2050 is the current EU climate policy mantra and it comes with the claim that this plan is sufficient to meet the Paris targets. Unfortunately, on closer inspection, not much remains of this assumption, casting doubts on the adequacy of European climate policy as a whole<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does not sound far away, however, reaching climate neutrality in 30 years will prove to be largely insufficient to limit global warming to 1.5\u00b0C. The scientific evidence for that is overwhelming, as shown by the Energy Watch Group\u2019s recent policy paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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