The EU long-term strategy to reduce GHG emissions in light of the Paris Agreement and the IPCC SR1.5

The EU long-term strategy to reduce GHG emissions in light of the Paris Agreement and the IPCC SR1.5
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Date Published 2018, December 07

Authors Jakob Wachsmuth, Michiel Schaeffer, Bill Hare

The European Union has recently published its Strategic Vision “A clean planet for all” along with the In-Depth Analysis supporting it. In it, the European Commission claims that an 80% reduction of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 can be taken as being in line with the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal. In this paper, published by Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, we discuss how the Commission’s relabelling of the former “hold-below-2°C” pathways associated with the 2010 Cancun Agreements as the Paris Agreement temperature goal – “hold warming well-below 2°C, limit to 1.5°C ” is not correct. By design, the Paris long-term temperature goal is a strengthening of the former 2°C goal.