Recital 4

(4) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes in its 2021 Special Report that emission decreases for fluorinated greenhouse gases of up to 90 % by 2050 globally compared to the year 2015 would be needed. In response to the urgency for climate action, the Union increased its climate ambition through Regulation (EU) 2021/1119. That Regulation establishes a binding Union domestic reduction target for net greenhouse gas emissions (emissions after deduction of removals) of at least 55 % by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and the objective of achieving climate neutrality within the Union at the latest by 2050. The Union has also enhanced its initial nationally determined contribution under the Paris Agreement of greenhouse gas emissions reductions from at least 40 % by 2030, to at least 55 %. However, the evaluation of Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 shows that the emission savings envisaged by 2030 in the context of the outdated Union climate objectives will not be fully achieved.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.