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Green Deal definition

What does Green Deal mean? In legal practice, “Green Deal” commonly denotes the European Green Deal: the EU’s policy programme to deliver climate neutrality, biodiversity recovery and climate adaptation, driving legislation on energy, environment, trade and sustainable finance. The term is not a statutory definition; it derives from the European commission’s policy communication, under which binding measures have been enacted, including the EU Climate Law (net‑zero by 2050; at least 55% emissions reduction by 2030), the Fit for 55 package, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), and sustainable finance and reporting rules (Taxonomy, SFDR, CSRD). In Ireland, these instruments apply directly or by transposition...

EU Green Deal energy system integration: monthly-updated tracker of legislative actions on electrification, hydrogen, renewables, markets, grids, efficiency, heat, CCUS and digitalisation (REPowerEU, Grids Action Plan, Clean Industrial Deal)

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Under the European Green Deal, the EU has established ambitious milestones to cut greenhouse gas emissions incrementally through 2030 and beyond, with the end goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of 30 June 2021 (the EU Climate Regulation) imposes a statutory duty on the EU to deliver a 55% cut in carbon emissions relative to 1990 baselines by 2030 and to attain full carbon neutrality by 2050. According to the European Commission, producing and using energy generates more than 75% of the EU’s GHG emissions. Swift decarbonisation of the energy system is therefore essential to meet the 2030 and 2050 objectives. To that end, the EU is designing and implementing a regulatory and policy framework for a climate-neutral, ‘clean’ energy system, centred on renewable energy and renewable hydrogen, alongside enhanced energy efficiency. The shift to a low-carbon energy system has been on the EU’s policy agenda for some time. The European Green Deal targets build on, and raise, the ambition of earlier EU strategies and action plans, including the 2030 Climate and Energy Framework adopted in 2014 and...

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