For immediate release, Thursday 1st June 2017 Contact (+32) 2893 9208 suzana@sandbag.org.uk for more information New European Parliament climate policy cuts half a billion tonnes of CO2 Parliament’s Environment Committee (ENVI) voted on Tuesday to improve the Effort...
Category: Briefs
It’s time for growth: Europe needs more low-carbon projects in non-ETS sectors
In October 2014, EU Heads of State and Governments agreed to reduce emissions in non-ETS sectors including transport, buildings, waste and agriculture by 30% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. Today, together with CAN Europe, Sandbag is urging the Parliament’s...
2017: A new starting point on the trajectory to 2050
New Climate Action Regulation translates the Paris Agreement into EU domestic policy and creates mechanism for Member States to collectively achieve 2050 target cost-effectively ENVI draft proposal introduces Climate Action Regulation, replacing the Effort Sharing...
Will Poland change the course of the Paris Agreement?
Sandbag has written to the Polish government (in Polish) on ratification of the Paris Agreement by the European Union. Tomorrow Member States will decide whether to ratify at the extraordinary ENVI Council meeting in Brussels. Poland who was a proud leader of the...
From Energiewende to transformacja energetyczna a la Polonaise?
Last week Ola Mirowicz, Sandbag’s Climate Policy Adviser, spoke at the Polish Economic Forum in Krynica about the opportunities for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to address the challenge of the Energiewende. The Economic Forum is a major economic and...
Europe’s new climate proposal delivers less than business-as-usual emission cuts
Today, the European Commission has released a new proposal for cutting emissions in transport, agriculture and buildings sectors by 2030, and suggests how this effort should be shared between Member States. This proposal introduces a number of dangerous loopholes that...
Bend it, don’t Break it: How can we win the political debate for a higher 2030 ESD target?
This week the Commission should publish its new legislative proposal on the Effort Sharing Decision (ESD) – the policy driving emission reductions for the remaining approximately 60% of EU greenhouse gas emissions, not covered under the Emissions Trading System (ETS)....
Flexibilities now: How to get more for less from the EU Effort Sharing Decision?
DG CLIMA, European Commission’s (EC) service for climate change mitigation, will publish the proposal of changes to the EU Effort Sharing Decision (ESD) around 20 July. We expect that the proposal has now entered into the ‘interservice consultation’ where it is...
EU must walk the talk on climate ambition and Paris
Tomorrow the European Union, alongside over 150 states, will sign the Paris agreement at a ceremony in New York. But can we really live up to the promise of keeping the world below 1.5 degrees warming with the current low level of ambition in the European 2030 climate...
UK targets Net Zero emissions, but carbon accounting flaws remain
Last night, the government agreed to a new long-term target of net zero emissions, making the UK government the first to nationally implement the global netzero goal enshrined in the Paris Agreemeent. On the same night, however, a vote to close an accounting loophole...