Article by Tomasz Brzeziński and Adam Wawrzynowicz in the September issue of “Przegląd Gazniczy”

Adam Wawrzynowicz and Tomasz Brzeziński co-authored an article entitled “The current state of the initiatives taken at the EU level to increase the EU climate target for 2030 and implement the European Green Deal.” It was published in the September issue of Przegląd Gazniczy No. 3 (67).

On March 4, 2020, the European Commission, acting in line with the principles of the European Green Deal, adopted a legislative proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework to achieve climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 (European Climate Law) . The regulation provides for an assessment of the EU’s 2030 climate target in terms of its consistency with the 2050 climate neutrality target. As a result of the assessment, the Commission will develop a plan to increase the EU’s 2030 reduction target.

Achieving climate neutrality requires coordinated action across all EU policy areas. The article deals with the most important, from the perspective of the gas industry, initiatives on how to achieve increased the climate goals in the energy sector as recently published by the European Commission. Among the most important for the transformation of the gas sector are the strategies for methane and hydrogen, for energy systems integration, and for the revision of the provisions of the Energy Taxation Directive and the RED II Directive.