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ECODES (Ecology and Development Foundation) welcomes the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) as a tool to create lead markets for low-carbon products. However, we warn that the proposal has lost focus on decarbonisation and risks consolidating the status quo rather than boosting real investment. We focused our observations on steel and cement/concrete. Objective (Art. 2).

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Targets Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next 10 years are definitive for the success – or failure – of climate action. The Commissions plan to update the 2030 target is not enough. Without taking equity and the historic responsibility into account, the EU must commit to at least 65% cut in emissions by 2030 and net-zero by 2040.

The political response to the climate emergency is the defining issue of our time. But progress has been painfully slow. The EU has staked its credibility on showing the world that it can decarbonise as extensively as science demands, while ensuring no-one is left behind.

EU emissions may be down, but since the Paris Agreement they have stagnated, only reducing by an average of 1% a year. The Climate Law must set the overall framework for the EU to achieve the required emission cuts and restrict those industries that are causing the climate emergency. 1. The IPCC 1.5C special report says that action until 2030 will determine whether we limit global heating to 1.5C.

Greenpeace welcomes the initiative by the European Commission to bring the Energy Taxation Directive and wider EU and national taxation policies in line with the EU's climate commitments. This submission spells out the key elements that Greenpeace believes the EU should take into account for the next revision of the ETD in 2021.

Europe is currently facing the double challenge of the Ukraine war and the ongoing climate and ecological crisis. It is more urgent than ever to recognise the need to end our dependence on fossil fuels and adequately plan their phase out, with a clear roadmap that leaves no one behind.

The Arctic is warming three to four times faster than the global average, making it one of the most environmentally vulnerable and geopolitically sensitive regions in the world. Rapid climate change is transforming ecosystems, accelerating ice melt and increasing global attention to the regions natural resources and strategic importance.

Please find Greenpeace's response to this public consultation in the attached file. It consists of two documents: 1) A response to the European Commission's TEN-E regulation proposal (in an NGOs briefing) 2) A response to the European Commission's TEN- regulation proposal by the Fossil Free Politics Coalition

Greenpeace opposes the proposed increase of the limits of the overall nitrogen load allowed in environmentally vulnerable zones as currently regulated by the Nitrates directive (91/676/EEC). The EU already experiences a significant and harmful overload of nitrogen in its waters and ecosystems across rural areas, which causes worrying levels of pollution.

The review of the EU LULUCF regulation must end allowing member states to reduce their forest sinks as currently planned by many (by means of projected forest reference levels allowing to further increase wood harvesting). Declining sinks are equivalent to increased emissions and therefore goes against the Paris Climate Agreement.

The EUs LULUCF sector is critical for the EUs 2030 and 2050 climate targets, as well as for the protection of biodiversity but the EU is about to miss its targets both for carbon removals as well as for halting biodiversity loss in the land sector. The carbon sink of the LULUCF sector has been in decline since 2010 and according to the EEA the last 10-year trend has consistently pointed in the wrong direction.

Europe is currently facing the double challenge of the Ukraine war and the ongoing climate and ecological crisis. It is more urgent than ever to recognise the need to end our dependence on fossil fuels and adequately plan their phase out, with a clear roadmap that leaves no one behind.

Greenpeace European Unit welcomes this consultation and would like to share the following remarks: - The clear lesson learned after a decade of pledges to clean up the supply chains of commodities like meat, palm oil, timber and soy fed to animals from forest destruction is that industry self-regulation initiatives have failed to deliver.

Hello, I believe it is important and urgent for the European Commission to take a firm stance against the deforestation of primary forests by multinationals and to propose penalties for the damage done. This is important for at least 3 reasons: > safeguarding biodiversity > global warming > protection of scented populations Best regards

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The EUTR fitness check should assess the legislation in light of its environmental goals and legal basis (Art. 192 TFEU), and in terms of its contribution to the EU’s forest protection objectives. An evaluation limited to the economic costs and benefits for the stakeholders involved would not be appropriate for the EUTR, as its primary objective is environmental, not economic.

Greenpeace welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the call for evidence for an impact assessment of the Air Services Regulation No 1008/2008. It is essential that the revision of the Air Services regulation not only addresses the learnings and resolves the shortcomings experienced during the COVID-19 crisis, but also reflects the objectives of the European Green Deal, including the 55 % greenhouse gas…