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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe recently updated its Paris Agreement Compatible (PAC) scenario in which it describes how the European Union can become climate neutral by 2040, ten years earlier than the EU’s official target date.

For many years now, the fossil fuel industry has supported claims that wind mills and wind farms are harmful to birds as they are often sited on important bird migration routes.

At the last climate summit (COP29) which took place in November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan, countries both welcomed and rejected the conclusions related to climate finance.

The biodiversity summit decided to improve policy coherence across the Rio Conventions. But there was little concrete progress on critical issues like financing and forests.

COP29 showed insufficient progress in climate pledges. Greenhouse gas emissions must decrease by at least 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 to meet Paris Agreement goals.

As the majority shifts to the right, can the Commission still align the EU's 2030-target with the 1.5°C objective?

Experiences from 1500 policies world-wide, show that an effective climate mitigation strategy must include a mix of approaches that include carbon pricing.

Overall, the countries that participated in the Second Commitment Period of the Kyoto Protocol have overachieved their collective target and achieved an overall emission reduction of 28% in 2020 (compared to 1990 emissions).

The protection of forests did not figure high on the UN climate convention’s COP28 agenda last December and it really seems negotiators are waiting for Brazil’s COP30 in 2025.

Forests have a great potential to deliver on climate mitigation (and adaptation) while at the same time providing important benefits to biodiversity and the indigenous peoples who depend on them.

Discussions about new 2035 and 2040 climate targets have started in the European Union.

EU Member States and the European Parliament recently agreed on the Regulation on deforestation-free products, which aims to promote the consumption of forest-friendly products and reduce the EU’s impact on global deforestation and forest degradation.

AirClim’s Northern Forests and Climate Change project aims to increase the visibility of Northern forests in the international climate debate.