What is happening ?
In recent times, the concern about climate change is rising as many institutions and leading scientists show unprecedented changes in the world’s climate and therefore, they state it is an urgent matter to take action for. According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global warming is causing increased, and in some cases irreversible, changes to rainfall patterns, oceans and winds in all regions of the world. The analysis expects an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as maritime heatwaves, across Europe, and warns that a 2°C rise in temperature will have disastrous consequences for nature and humans. Higher temperatures and more intense weather events will also result in huge costs for the EU’s economy. Scientists, on the other hand, believe that human action can alter the course of events. Immediate, large- scale, and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as reaching net-zero CO2 emissions, have the potential to mitigate climate change and its repercussions.
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As a first step in tackling the climate change challenge, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established in 1999 at the «Earth Summit.» Climate Action was included as one of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2021, as «taking urgent action to prevent climate change and its impacts» is one of the world’s top priorities. The European Union itself is making its efforts with the European Green Deals and its long-term strategy to reach a climate-neutral Europe by 2050. The European Green Deal provides the blueprint and roadmap for the EU to make its climate ambitions a reality. It recognizes the necessity of all EU activities and policies contributing to climate neutrality, and it lays out a roadmap for legislative and non-legislative initiatives to help the EU achieve this aim. These acts affect industries, transportation & mobility, energy, and finance. The European climate law, which is at the heart of the European Green Deal, will turn the EU’s climate- related political pledges into legal obligations. This piece of legislation will lay the groundwork for the EU and its member states to take steps to cut emissions over time and eventually achieve climate neutrality in the EU by 2050.
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