Towards a multilevel Green Deal governance: the revision of the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action Regulation

18th ENVE commission meeting, 29 June 2023 WORKING DOCUMENT ENVE-VII/037 Commission for Environment, Climate Change and Energy Towards a multilevel Green Deal governance: the revision of the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action Regulation _____________ Rapporteur: Joško KLISOVIĆ (HR/PES) President of the Assembly, city of Zagreb _____________ This document will be discussed at the meeting of the Commission for Environment, Climate Change and Energy to be held from 11 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. on 29 June 2023 Reference document Own-initiative opinion Working document of the Commission for Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE) – Towards a multilevel Green Deal governance: the revision of the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action Regulation The political context In December 2019 the European Commission released a communication on the European Green Deal, outlining an ambitious set of EU policies aiming at ensuring that the EU becomes a climate-neutral continent by 2050. The climate neutrality goal proposed in the Green Deal and then enshrined in the Climate Law is part of the EU's commitments at global level as Party to the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and signatory to the Paris Agreement. The European Green Deal (EGD) is meant to be the new EU growth strategy and sets the goal of climate neutrality by 2050: this overall objective implies the implementation of...