2023-04-21 15:23:50
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenhas invited the main global economies to work with the European Union to move together towards energy efficiency and renewable energy targets ahead of the United Nations Conference on the Climate changewhich will be held at the end of the year in Dubai.
This was stated during his speech at the forum of the main economies on energy and climate, where he stressed that “working together to achieve a zero net balance is a necessity for the climate, a new frontier for technology, an opportunity for companies and an engine to create good jobs.
“We are the policy makers that we can keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. And we have the tools With innovation, science, technology and industrial capacity to achieve this objective”, stated the president of the Community Executive, although she has also urged to “accelerate” the speed of progress.
Von der Leyen recalled that the EU has just increased our renewable energy target for 2030, from 32% to more than 42%, as well as its energy efficiency target, while, on a global scale, “many countries have chosen the same address”.
“That is why today I would like to launch a new initiative to work together towards global energy efficiency and renewable energy goals. We could develop these objectives before COP28″, he encouraged, before also stressing that the EU has joined the Alliance of Leaders for Climate and Forests, in which the Union will invest one billion euros between now and next year. .
Referring to the 150 countries that have already joined the Global Commitment against Methane that the EU launched together with the United States, Von der Leyen has invited them to draw up roadmaps to “turn commitments into actions”, at a time when the The EU is reducing F-gases beyond what the Kigali amendment requires.
Finally, he welcomed his initiative on carbon management and highlighted that the European Commission has proposed a binding European target for carbon storage capacity of 50 million tons of CO2 per year by 2030.
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