On 14 December 2022, the European Commission adopted its annual report on the European carbon market in 2021.
Leaders from Viet Nam and the International Partners Group, including the EU, United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, Italy, Canada, Japan, Norway and Denmark on 14 December 2022 agreed a bold Just Energy Transition Partnership.
EAVOR-LOOP will proceed with the first commercial-scale implementation of an innovative closed-loop geothermal technology.
The European Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached with the European Parliament and Council to strengthen the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), apply emissions trading to new sectors for effective economy-wide climate action, and establish a Social Climate Fund.
The Commission welcomes the deal reached in the week of 9 December 2022 between the European Parliament and the Council to help make the aviation sector ‘Fit for 55', setting in law its contribution to our target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030.
The third CCMI survey for 2022 is now open. The focus in this edition is on methane emissions and hard-to-decarbonise sectors (e.g. heavy industry) how they are integrated in climate change models, in addition to the regularly covered topics (NDCs and mid-century strategies). Please submit contributions about your latest research by 31st January 2023.
On 3 November, the European Commission launched the third call for large-scale projects under the EU Innovation Fund. This call will boost the deployment of industrial solutions to decarbonise Europe and provide additional support towards ending the EU's dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
The European Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached with the European Parliament and Council to increase the ambition of the EU's Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR).
From Pakistan to California to the south of France: the floods, heatwaves and wildfires that have hit different countries around the world this year have – once again – demonstrated how climate change knows no borders.
The European Commission welcomes the provisional deal on the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry regulation reached on 10 November with the European Parliament and Council to increase the EU's target for net carbon removals by natural sinks to 310 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2030.
At the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the European Commission showed ambition and flexibility to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees within reach.
The Joint Committee under the EU and Swiss Linking Agreement agreed on the 2023 arrangements for the transfers of emission allowances between the registries of the EU Emissions Trading System and the Swiss Emissions Trading System.
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