A modern, resource-efficient economy and climate-neutral by 2050. This is our objective.

This week we kept delivering on Europe’s climate targets with new #EUGreenDeal proposals.

⚡️Energy and climate
🚆Efficient and green mobility
⚖️Combating environmental crimes
➡Europe needs to decarbonise the energy consumed.

Our proposals will help cut emissions by:

🔸facilitating the uptake of renewable and low carbon gases, including hydrogen
🔸ensuring energy security for all citizens in Europe.
🔸removing regulatory barriers

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➡️Europe needs to curb methane emissions.

In a first-ever EU legislative proposal to reduce methane emissions in the energy sector, we will require the oil, gas and coal sectors to:

🔸measure
🔸report, and
🔸verify methane emissions

#EUGreenDeal Image
➡️Europe needs to balance out the impacts of CO2 emissions.

We need to:

🔸drastically reduce our reliance on fossil carbon
🔸upscale carbon farming to store more carbon in nature
🔸promote industrial solutions to sustainably remove and recycle carbon

#EUGreenDeal Image
➡️Europe needs more efficient buildings - they are the single largest energy consumer in 🇪🇺.

Our proposal on the energy performance of buildings aims to boost the rate of energy renovation across the EU.

Stimulating renovation also creates new job opportunities.

#EUGreenDeal Image
➡️Europe needs to decarbonise the transport sector.

We propose a transition to smart and sustainable mobility across Europe and in urban areas.

Faster rail connections, improved public transport, and better infrastructure for walking and cycling.

#EUGreenDeal Image
➡️Europe needs a stronger law for environmental criminal offences.

If law-breakers act with impunity, all the progress made for a greener world will be lost.

We proposed a new law to give enforcement authorities the tools to act more effectively across the EU.

#EUGreenDeal Image

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More from @EU_Commission

15 Dec
Objective➡️EU climate neutrality by 2050.

We keep delivering on Europe’s climate targets with new #EUGreenDeal proposals.

📗 Decarbonising Europe's gas markets

📗 Cutting methane emissions

📗 Energy Performance of Buildings

📗 Sustainable Carbon Cycles
The 🇪🇺 needs to decarbonise the energy it consumes to cut emissions by 55% by 2030.

Our proposals will help reach that goal by:

🔸facilitating the uptake of renewable and low carbon gases, including hydrogen

🔸ensuring energy security for all citizens in Europe.

#EUGreenDeal
We aim to sustainably decarbonise the system.

We want to remove regulatory barriers to facilitate & promote access to the existing gas grid.

With these proposals we are creating the conditions for a cost-efficient deployment of renewable gases, including hydrogen.

#EUGreenDeal
Read 9 tweets
14 Dec
Faster rail connections, improved public transport, and better infrastructure for walking and cycling.

Today, we present four proposals to put the transport sector on track to cut its emissions by 90% and in line with the objectives of the #EUGreenDeal.

#MobilityStrategy
1️⃣
A smart and sustainable Trans-European Transport Network, boosting high-speed trains and embedding multimodality.

424 cities will be interconnected by ports, airports and railway terminals. Once completed, travel times between these cities will be considerably reduced. Image
2️⃣
Only 7% of rail kilometres travelled between 2001 and 2018 involved cross-border trips.

We aim to make long-distance cross-border train travel more attractive and the default travel option for many more 🇪🇺 passengers: quicker journeys, more frequencies, and more affordable. Image
Read 5 tweets
11 Dec
Good morning from Florence 🇮🇹!

Europeans from all 27 countries are meeting to discuss further:

👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏻 strengthening rights, non-discrimination values
⚖️ protecting democracy, the rule of law
️ 🗣️ stronger citizens’ participation

How did it all start? 👇 #TheFutureIsYours
Four Panels, each consisting of 200 Europeans, are meeting three times to jointly discuss and design Europe's future.

They were selected randomly to reflect our diversity in geographic origin, gender, age, socioeconomic background and education.

What topics do they discuss? 👇
Each panel covers a diverse set of topics, and people together agree on the direction of their discussions.

They identify critical issues for Europe’s future and propose their ideas for solutions.

What will be the impact of their ideas? 👇
Read 5 tweets
9 Dec
We need to ensure decent working conditions for people working through digital labour platforms.

Today, we are proposing measures to improve them and to support the sustainable growth of digital labour platforms in the EU.

#PlatformWork #SocialRights
📂Directive
L📂Workers
L ℹ️ Clear criteria to establish whether a platform is an employer and clarity on social protection and labour rights.
📂Directive
L📂Platforms
L ℹ️ Increased legal certainty, reduced litigation costs, business planning facilitation.
Read 6 tweets
1 Dec
⚠️ Crime does not stop at a border – neither should justice.

EU judicial systems need to work hand in hand to fight cross-border crime more effectively.

For this, we propose to further digitise our justice systems.

More about our initiatives below and→europa.eu/!UXxhFt
@VeraJourova @dreynders 1⃣️ Digitising our justice systems is key to providing easier and faster access to justice.

Our initiatives:

✅ Digitalisation of cross-border judicial cooperation
✅ Digital information exchange in terrorism cases
✅ Establishing a platform for Joint Investigation Teams
2⃣️ Justice systems also need to be more resilient to crises, and courts need to be able to work in all circumstances.

This is a principle of the rule of law. ⚖️

And equipping justice systems with the appropriate tools is about supporting this principle.
Read 4 tweets
1 Dec
Over the last weeks, many of us have witnessed it: COVID-19 has resurged infecting some of our friends, co-workers or loved ones.

Today, we are putting forward a common and coordinated approach to address the resurgence of COVID-19 in many 🇪🇺 countries effectively.

#HealthUnion
Our call for determined and urgent responses include:

🔸Step up vaccination
🔸Rapid deployment of boosters
🔸Vigilance
🔸Rapid reaction to Omicron variant

We must act quickly and decisively to limit the spread of the virus and mitigate its impact.
🇪🇺 countries should put in place targeted and proportionate precautions and restrictions to limit the spread of the virus.

Where needed, effective public health measures, including social distancing and masks, need to be introduced.

Full EU coordination should be assured.
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