Cities and regions call for collective responsibility over the trajectory towards 2050 climate neutrality

The European Climate Law, as the legal pillar of the Green Deal, needs

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Friday, July 3, 2020

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Articles, Nature, Physical geography, Climate change policy, Carbon dioxide, Carbon neutrality, Renewable energy, Global warming, Climate change mitigation

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• The European Climate Law, as the legal pillar of the Green Deal, needs
  to fully engage cities and regions in the design of the trajectory towards 2050.
• Members request local and regional climate inventories and objectives and call
  for a permanent Multilevel Energy Dialogue Platform and a European
  climate neutrality observatory.
• The president of Andalusia and rapporteur Juanma Moreno (ES/EPP) declared:"Europe must continue to lead the global fight against climate change.
• Cities and regions have a crucial role to play in achieving climate neutrality, an objective that should be compatible and even boost regional economic development and job creation.
• We reiterate our call for climate goals to be reached through renewable energy rather than an increased use of nuclear energy."
• Equally, data for monitoring progress under the European Climate Law should be collected at regional, rather than national level.
• Local and regional climate objectives would improve accuracy in progress monitoring and reduce the risks of climate action negatively affecting cohesion in the EU.
• The CoR underlines that climate neutrality should be reached by means of renewable energies rather than by an increased use of nuclear energy.

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