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EU Green Deal legislative and policy tracker (2019–2025): climate, energy, industry, buildings, transport, agriculture, biodiversity, pollution, finance, governance, external action, public engagement

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The European Green Deal serves as the European Commission’s framework for sustainable growth across Europe. It embodies the Commission’s answer to existential dangers of climate change and biodiversity decline. It sets out a plan for action within the EU and for international cooperation to avert the gravest effects of a warming planet, while enabling citizens to adjust to unavoidable climate change and helping businesses to shift towards sustainability.

Introduction to the European Green Deal

The European Green Deal Communication (the Green Deal) appeared on 11 December 2019. It outlined a series of overarching aims to steer EU legislation and policy in the years after publication. An initial European Green Deal roadmap (the Roadmap), listing the principal measures to be adopted in fulfilment of the Green Deal’s objectives, was issued at the same time. A central ambition of the Green Deal is to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, with an interim target to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 50% below 1990 levels by 2030. This supersedes the Commission’s earlier pledge to achieve an 80% reduction in GHG emissions by mid-century (for further details, see Practice Note: EU 2050 low-carbon economy—snapshot). Aside from emissions reductions across...

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