{"id":45077,"date":"2020-09-29T21:06:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/?p=45077"},"modified":"2020-09-29T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T19:19:08","slug":"eu-commission-2030-climate-plan-inadequate-and-irresponsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/climate-energy\/45077\/eu-commission-2030-climate-plan-inadequate-and-irresponsible\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Inadequate and irresponsible&#8221;: NGO analysis of EU Commission&#8217;s 2030 climate plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large  caption-style-blue-overlay caption-alignment-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/20b595de-202009-worlds-most-northerly-climate-protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/20b595de-202009-worlds-most-northerly-climate-protest.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/20b595de-202009-worlds-most-northerly-climate-protest-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/20b595de-202009-worlds-most-northerly-climate-protest-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/20b595de-202009-worlds-most-northerly-climate-protest-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>18-year-old environmental activist and campaigner Mya-Rose Craig poses on an ice floe in the Arctic as part of the most northerly climate strike at 82.2\u00b0 North.\n\nA Greenpeace team is in the Arctic to document the impact of the climate crisis and investigate marine life in the region.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>We are in a race against time. Forests are burning, ice sheets are collapsing and the window to stop runaway climate change is closing. To avoid the collapse of human civilisation as we know it and the mass extinction of life on Earth, immediate action is needed.<\/p>\n\n<p>The 50.5-52.8% real emission reductions backed by the European Commission for 2030 are grossly inadequate and completely irresponsible.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/09\/20200929-NGO-analysis-EC-2030-climat-plan.pdf\">This analysis<\/a> by eight leading green NGOs examines the EU Commission&#8217;s climate plans for 2030.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Sebastian Mang&nbsp; \u2013 Greenpeace EU climate policy adviser<\/strong>: +32 (0)479 601289,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:sebastian.mang@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\">sebastian.mang@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Greenpeace EU press desk<\/strong>: +32 (0)2 274 1911,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:pressdesk.eu@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pressdesk.eu@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>For breaking news and comment on EU affairs:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/GreenpeaceEU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.twitter.com\/GreenpeaceEU<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace. Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments, the EU, businesses or political parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis by eight leading green NGOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,26,28,29,37,40],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-45077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","tag-climatechange","tag-farming","tag-forests","tag-fossilfuels","tag-renewables","tag-transport","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45081,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45077\/revisions\/45081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45077"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=45077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}