Veranstaltung

The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research and Oeko Institute would like to invite you to a webinar presenting yet unpublished results from the project "GHG-neutral EU 2050 - a scenario of an EU with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and its implications"

Background: Given that the Paris Agreement has strengthened the long-term temperature goal and that it calls for a balance of greenhouse gas emissions and sinks within the 21^st century, there is the urgent need to re-assess the long-term targets of the EU and to show how the target of GHG neutrality can be reached in the EU.

The aim of the study "GHG-neutral EU 2050 - a scenario of an EU with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and its implications" is to show one way to realize a European Union with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions under further sustainability criteria. Besides the detailed quantitative description of a sectoral setup for all GHG-emitting sectors, the study contains a qualitative discussion of the sectoral options to reach GHG-neutrality, cross-sectoral interactions as well as the challenges associated with realizing such a scenario.