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Today, the EU and Norway have established a Green Alliance to strengthen their joint climate action, environmental protection efforts, and cooperation on the clean energy and industrial transition.

The Commission will publish the available compliance data on 4 May in the afternoon.

Even against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the ensuing gas price spikes, greenhouse gas emissions covered by the EU’s Emission Trading System (ETS) only rose very slightly last year.

The European Commission has today launched a portal to drive forward the EU’s Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change. The Portal provides information about the Mission and latest developments regarding its delivery, including by regional and local authorities that are participating.

The European Commission launched a call for applications to select organisations to be appointed as additional members for the ETS2 implementation of the Commission expert group on climate change policy. The call will remain open until 3 May 2023.

We are launching a public consultation to gather people’s views on the EU’s intermediary climate target for 2040, setting a path from our already-agreed 2030 targets  to net-zero emissions by 2050. It will run until 24 June 2023. 

Today, the European Commission is launching the third call for small-scale projects under the Innovation Fund, one of the world's largest funding programmes for the deployment of innovative low-carbon technologies.

The European Commission has received 239 applications from innovative clean tech projects, in response to the third Innovation Fund call for large-scale projects. The project proposals applying to four different topics will now compete for a total call budget of €3 billion.

The Commission welcomes the final adoption today by the EU Member States of the European Commission’s proposal to make all new cars and vans registered in Europe zero-emission from 2035.

In December 2022, the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement on financing additional actions under REPowerEU. The auctioning for the purpose of REPowerEU is therefore tentatively envisaged to start in July 2023.

Since 1 April, 2023, is a bank holiday, the Commission will publish the available emissions data per installation on 3 April in the afternoon.

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has published its Synthesis Report, the final part of its sixth assessment cycle, which confirms the link between human activity and the climate crisis. 

Thousands of experts from all around the world are involved in the drafting of IPCC reports – and some of them even work at the European Commission.

To reach climate neutrality in Europe by mid-century, we need to invest in making our electricity grids sustainable and emission-free, while boosting European green industry.

301 regions and local authorities have now signed the Charter of the EU Mission for Adaptation to Climate Change. In doing so, they support the goals of the European Green Deal and EU Climate Adaptation Strategy.

With 2022 ranked as one of the warmest years ever recorded, tackling climate change has become an even more pressing matter. This is nothing new for the EU which launched the European Green Deal back in 2019 to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Today, the European Commission has proposed ambitious new CO2 emissions targets for new heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) from 2030 onwards.

DG Climate action launched a market-testing survey, to consult a wide range of stakeholders on key features of the future Innovation Fund and to establish an appropriate portfolio of support instruments that will best meet the market needs.