皇冠体育app

皇冠体育app Green Growth Group is an informal grouping of like-minded energy, climate and environment Ministers from 13 EU Member States: UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia and Estonia.

皇冠体育app Group is working together with a view to exploring, promoting and pursuing a cost-effective and growth-enhancing ambitious EU low carbon agenda. As part of their work, the Group has published this Joint Pamphlet entitled 鈥楪oing for Green Growth鈥� which sets out the case for why the EU needs to take ambitious and immediate low carbon action. 皇冠体育app pamphlet covers:

• 皇冠体育app latest scientific evidence of man-made climate change and its impacts on the EU economy and society;
• Barriers to urgently needed European low carbon energy investments, especially the lack of long-term EU level policy certainty and weak investment signals from the EU ETS;
• 皇冠体育app risk to Europe鈥檚 energy security and how to reverse the EU鈥檚 rapidly growing dependency on fossil fuel imports from increasingly risky or unstable parts of the world;
• 皇冠体育app economics of decarbonisation and why it is essential not to delay decisions and ambitious action;
• 皇冠体育app importance of preserving and strengthening EU competitiveness during our decarbonisation process, such as through energy efficiency measures and targeted support to those industries that may need support based on sound analysis of carbon leakage risks;
• 皇冠体育app opportunities to substantially lower decarbonisation costs through integrating energy markets, boosting competition, expanding carbon trading and reforming the EU ETS;
• 皇冠体育app opportunities from the dramatic growth in the global low carbon economy in recent years and the challenges of increasing international low carbon business competition;
• 皇冠体育app jobs, growth and wider health and other co-benefits from ambitious low carbon action.

皇冠体育app Pamphlet concludes with a call for three priority EU actions: 1. Agree an ambitious EU 2030 Energy and Climate Policy Framework; 2. Reform the Structure of the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System; 3. Ensure the EU is in a position to put an ambitious emissions reduction offer on the table at the Ban Ki-Moon-hosted World Leaders鈥� Climate Summit in autumn 2014.

This document is intended to provide a useful contribution to the policy debate on the EU 2030 framework for climate and energy policies, reform of the EU ETS and EU leadership in the UNFCCC.