Input from Environmental NGOs at the Start of the Next Round of the ECCP

The current NGO assessment of progress in EU climate policy calls for the following set of actions that the ECCP needs to consider:

• Strengthen national implementation of existing policies to ensure they realise their emissions reductions potential.
• Strengthen and speed up adoption of legislative proposals that are still in process to maximise their emissions reductions.
• Urgently adopt additional measures to compensate for emission increases in some sectors or unrealised reductions from other policies.
• Ensure overall sustainability of EU climate policy and avoid locking Europe into high- carbon or high-risk technologies.
• Critically evaluate the volume of external credits to be used for Kyoto compliance to ensure the vast majority of reduction obligations are met through domestic action.
• Look at policies to meet necessary emissions reductions for 2020 (at least 30% domestic reductions compared to 1990).