Caspian Energy (CE): Mr. Timmermans, how will the EU’s «Green Deal», if implemented by 2050, save the climate situation on the planet? Is it planned to be coordinated with India, China, the USA, Great Britain and Russia?
Frans Timmermans, European Commission Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal: The European Green Deal is the EU’s strategy to become the first climate-neutral continent in the world. The European Green Deal is about renewable and cutting-edge technologies for the energy transition, about protecting and restoring nature, about moving to a circular economy, about improving the wellbeing of people and making sure this is a just transition where no one will be left behind. Making Europe climate-neutral will be good for people, planet and the economy.
The EU is currently responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The climate crisis is a global crisis, and each country will need to step up and reduce its own emissions. That is, after all, what we committed to in the Paris Agreement and reinforced at last year’s climate summit in Glasgow. Major emitters have a specific responsibility to ensure that we can keep global warming to the limit of 1,5 degrees.
So we have to cooperate. In this sense, the Green Deal itself can offer solutions that could also benefit other countries’ fight against the climate crisis. International fora like the G7, G20, the climate COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, and the biodiversity COP15 in Montreal are important moments for global cooperation, and to take stock of everyone’s efforts so far to act on what we all agreed. The more international cooperation we have, the more effective our fight against the climate and biodiversity crises will be.
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