is a relentless momentum towards making the EU climate neutral by 2050. This marries up
formal political-legal EU ambition with the international Paris Agreement, where
in a well-developed form in the EU, most notably under the EU Emissions Trading
carbon border tax targeting imports from non-EU countries with less strict climate policies – will
competitiveness, ensuring a just transition across the EU, protecting the natural environment and biodiversity, strategic
drive decarbonisation across the breadth of the EU’s socio-economic sectors. This means in
economy – a position diametrically opposed to the EU’s “decarbonisation equals growth” type of ideology
stimulate and expand the economy, and the EU’s coffers will gradually overflow. In other
So significant future trade negotiations between the EU and US may run into problems, for
regime has yet to be passed into EU law and policy (the commission intends to
history demonstrates that the complex machinery of EU governance makes substantial changes to its climate
The EU has been a relatively progressive actor on
have severely struggled to meet even current EU climate obligations
Given the gravity of climate change, the EU institutions are right to press the case