ENTSOG South-North Corridor GRIP 2017 - Main Report

4.1.3 SUSTAINABILITY

A historic bridge between current policies and climate-neutrality to be reached before the end of this century was set in December 2015 at the Paris climate conference (COP21), where 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally-binding global climate agreement, due to enter into force in 2020. The agreement sets out a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. EU Member States have committed themselves to following the Paris agreement and to putting in place the energy-related actions that will be needed at a European, regional, national and local level. To organise and make the contributions of Member States effective, in the context of the Energy Union , the Commission set up an integrated governance and monitoring process, also related to the actions necessary for achieving the environmental targets  4) . Consequently, in the next years, each Member State will be required to develop its National Energy and Climate Plan , setting out the direction and policies to pursue the national energy and climate objectives in a way consistent with the commonly agreed targets (in particular the 2030 targets). The first edition of the National Plans, covering the period from 2021 to 2030, should be submitted to the Commission by 2018, and developed according to the Commission’s Guidance on Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans , presented as part of the State of the Energy Union in November 2015. Since the National Plans , as envisaged in the context of the Energy Union Strategy , are not yet required, in the following part of this Chapter different national energy policy frameworks are presented as best available outlines to understand the expected evolution of the energy landscapes in the countries belonging to the South-North Corridor Region.

 4) Commission’s Communication on a Framework Strategy for the Energy Union – 25 February 2015

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