{"id":17507,"date":"2020-07-15T13:37:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=17507"},"modified":"2020-07-15T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:37:32","slug":"eu-budget-plan-falls-far-short-on-climate-goals-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vauen\/eu-budget-plan-falls-far-short-on-climate-goals-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"EU budget plan falls far short on climate goals, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>A European Commission proposal for the European Union\u2019s long-term budget and recovery fund risks leaving a huge shortfall in the \u201cgreen\u201d investment needed to meet Europe\u2019s climate goals, researchers said on Tuesday. With the coronavirus pandemic plunging the EU into a deep recession, leaders from its 27 countries will meet in Brussels on Friday to attempt to agree the bloc\u2019s budget for 2021-27 and an economic stimulus fund.<\/p>\n<p>The EU Commission has proposed a 1.85 trillion euro ($2.10 trillion) package, which it says will drive a recovery in Europe\u2019s virus-hit economies based on \u201cgreen\u201d industries and technologies that help to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases fuelling climate change. But only 80 billion euros are firmly earmarked for climate protection, according to an analysis by the consultancy Climate &amp; Company and think tank Agora Energiewende, both German-based, being published on Tuesday. That would pale against the 2.4 trillion euros in low-carbon investments that the researchers said were needed by 2027 to meet the EU\u2019s current emissions-cutting goals. They said investment priorities should be rapidly expanding renewable power generating capacity, clean hydrogen production, energy-saving building renovations and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission said it could not comment on an unpublished study. It has said 25% of the EU budget should support climate action. But the researchers said the lack of enforcement measures created a \u201chuge political risk\u201d that this money would be spent on investments that are polluting. Even if all EU funds made the maximum possible climate contribution, this would only add up to 675 billion euros by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-eu-recovery-climatechange\/eu-budget-plan-falls-far-short-on-climate-goals-researchers-say-idUSKCN24F0EA\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A European Commission proposal for the European Union\u2019s long-term budget and recovery fund risks leaving a huge shortfall in the \u201cgreen\u201d investment needed to meet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,35,40],"tags":[5153,877,75,3154,2520],"class_list":["post-17507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vauen","category-vaufien","category-weben","tag-budget","tag-climate-goals","tag-eu","tag-recovery-fund","tag-the-commission","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-35-id","wpcat-40-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17512,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507\/revisions\/17512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}