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European Union Side Event:
EU policies, dilemmas and
actions
REC Training for state negotiators
on the UNFCCC
Szentendre, 12-13 July
Erika Hasznos
Climate Policy Unit
[email protected]
What is a side event?
FCCC: „…forum to highlight diverse climate
change issues…”
or they fed
his stomach…
Organisers: FCCC, Parties, NGOs, BINGOs,
Research institutions etc.
Numbers: Bonn June 2010: approx. 100
Copenhagen: 240 (more than 1000
applications)
List of side events and exhibits:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/items/2654.php
EU side events
Bonn June 2010: on
fast start finance –
EU is delivering on its
funding commitment
(€7.2bn 2010-2012)
Showing „EU leadership”
How to speak on one voice?
EU towards Kyoto targets
EU-15: „EU bubble” – target -8%
1990-2008: reduction by 6.9 %
Some MSs on track, some need additional
measures.
EU-27: no common target
1990-2008: reduction by 11.3 %
CEE countries generally over-achieving
(economic restructuring – early efforts)
Q: mid-term impact of crisis?
EU towards Kyoto targets
EU 27 emission pathways and KP targets
(in kt CO2eq)
5 800 000
5 600 000
5 400 000
fact
5 200 000
KP "target"
wem
5 000 000
wam
4 800 000
4 600 000
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Climate and energy package
December 2008: EU Heads of State and
Government adopted „package”…
3 X 20 by 2020:
- 20% GHG reduction target (unilateral)
- 20% average renewable share
- 20% reduction in primary energy use (energy
efficiency, indicative)
Core legislative elements of „package”:
Revision of Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
Effort sharing decision for sectors outside ETS
Climate and energy package: ETS
„Flagship” of EU policies
Cap and trade system
11000 installations
40% of GHG
Harmonised rules
Cost-efficient reduction
– 21% (2005), trade
Auctioning and free allowances – government
revenues
Cap gradually reduced (1,74%/year)
Link to wider UNFCCC system: credits
Further linking to others? OECD wide carbon market?
Climate and energy package:
nonETS
Sectors not covered by ETS: transport, housing,
agriculture, waste
EU target: -10 compared to 2005 levels
Range for Member States: -20 to +20% (HU
+10%)
Possibility to trade
National low carbon strategy
+ EU wide measures
(vehicles, energy
performance
of buildings, eco-design etc.)
EU dilemma: 30%
Unilateral 20%
conditional 30%
„Comparability of
reduction and action”
May 2010:
Target (low pledge)
Target (high pledge)
from 1990
from 2005
from 1990
from 2005
Australia
12.9%
-10.4%
-10.8%
-29.3%
Canada
2.5%
-17.0%
2.5%
-17.0%
EU 27
-20.0%
-12.9%
-30.0%
-23.8%
Japan
-25.0%
-29.9%
-25.0%
-29.9%
Russian Federation
-15.0%
33.2%
-25.0%
17.5%
-12%
-8%
-18%
-14%
Annex I total
(including US)
Communication by Commission, pros and cons
2050 pathways
Comparability
Competitiveness
vs.
Carbon leakage
Crisis
Crisis
Co-benefits
Costs
EU and the 2˚ degree track
Further information
EU GHG inventories:
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eur
opean-union-greenhouse-gas-inventory2010
EU package:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/cli
mate_action.htm
National Climate Change Strategy 2008-25
(in HU):
http://klima.kvvm.hu/index.php?id=14