Long-Term Strategies

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Early 2020

The EU will submit a long-term strategy to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It will be based on the Communication A Clean Planet for all - A European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy published on November 28, 2018

The communication proposed “a climate neutral” target for the EU by 2050. Not all the EU member states have supported this target due to high transition costs. Poland is one example. However, the EC’s proposed Just Transition Mechanism to leave no one behind could help to overcome these objections. On December 12, 2019 EU member states endorsed the “EU climate