This document establishes a comprehensive framework to enable climate change mitigation efforts, including carbon removal, across the European Union (EU), and a framework aiming to meet the global adaptation goal set out in Article 7 of the Paris Agreement (art. 5). It further commits the EU to an enhanced target of GHG emissions reduction by 2030 (art. 4) and to climate neutrality by 2050 (art. 2). It amends Regulation (EC) 401/2009 to establish the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change and a number of articles of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999. 

The document defines the rules to assess Union progress and measures (art. 6) and national measures (art. 7). It charges the Commission to engage with the wider public (art. 9), Member States (art. 11) and to create sectoral roadmaps (art. 10). 

​The summary of this document was written by researchers at the Grantham Research Institute for the Climate Change Laws of the World database, available at climate-laws.org

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