Going local: empowering cities to lead EU decarbonisation. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue No. 22 | 2016

Tagliapietra, Simone and Zachmann, Georg. (2016) Going local: empowering cities to lead EU decarbonisation. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue No. 22 | 2016. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

From the Introduction. The EU’s energy and climate policy architecture has at its core an aim to deliver decarbonisation. On the basis of a long-term vision of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 (Figure 1), the EU adopted a binding 40 percent emissions reduction target percent to be achieved by 2030 compared to 1990. This target is also the basis of the EU’s international commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement1

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