Climate Now Live Debate: How is climate data shaping EU policy?

As the planet experiences rapid and perilous global warming, climate science is becoming increasingly integrated into EU policy. Data on climate change is influencing decision-making in Brussels and European lawmakers are responding by enshrining climate policies in legislation. 

Euronews is hosting a live panel debate which will be live-streamed at 11.30am CET on 24 September on the Euronews YouTube channel.

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The debate will ask how the facts about our planet are integrated into EU policy, looking at past decisions and future plans. 

Hosted by Euronews science correspondent Jeremy Wilks, the one-hour live event features MEP Delara Burkhardt, ECMWF Director General Florence Rabier, European Commission policy expert Vicky Pollard and MEP Michal Wiezik. 

In December 2019, the European Council presented the European Green Deal. 

EU leaders agreed that the bloc should achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This means having a net-zero emissions balance - only emitting as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as can be absorbed by nature through forests, oceans and soil. 

In December 2020, EU leaders pledged to more than halve (compared to 1990 levels) the EU's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 as an intermediate step towards the 2050 goal.

In July 2021, the European climate law - a key element of the European Green Deal - was passed. EU countries are now legally obliged to reach both the 2030 and 2050 climate targets.

This legislation requires EU countries to significantly slash greenhouse gas emissions and establish ways of compensating for unavoidable emissions. 

In order for the EU to reach climate neutrality, leaders have developed the 'Fit for 55'