A clean planet for all

European Union Strategy

A clean planet for all: A European long-term strategic vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy.

This broader strategy is focussed on the set of scenarios that would allow the EU to achieve sufficient decarbonisation by 2050 to be consistent with a less than 2°C (and less than 1.5°C) increase in temperature from pre-industrial averages.

The modelled decreases in emissions are 80%, 90% and 100% below 1990 levels.

Although the strategy is one of overall emissions reductions, hydrogen and ‘e-gas’ (e.g. gas produced using zero-carbon energy such as synthetic methane) play an important role in many of the scenarios developed given their potential to substitute for greenhouse gas emissions in many sectors where it is considered likely that it will be difficult for electricity to do so cost effectively.

An important feature of the strategy of the effort to consider energy decarbonisation needs and approaches systemically from energy generation, through potential distribution and storage technologies, to users of the energy (and industrial feedstock).