Climate: EU calls on Italia and eight other countries to revise their plans to reduce emissions by 2030
Next request announced; current commitments insufficient
(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - The European Commission will ask Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Italia, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta and Sweden to submit a corrective action plan to meet their 2030 CO₂ emission reduction targets. This is according to the EU progress report on decarbonisation. In these nine countries, “emissions exceed the allocated quotas in at least one year of the period under consideration, even assuming full use of the flexibility mechanisms mentioned above”. Cyprus, Croatia and Italia are projected to exceed their emission limits as early as the first compliance period (2021–2025), whilst for Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Italia, Malta, Ireland, Lithuania and Sweden, emissions are projected to exceed targets in the second compliance period (2026–2030). Hence the conclusion that these countries “are not making sufficient progress towards fulfilling their obligations relating to sectors not covered by the emissions trading scheme (domestic transport excluding international aviation; heating and cooling of homes and offices; agriculture; small-scale industry; waste management).
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