European decarbonization is accelerating. In 2024 renewables generated 47% of EU electricity, while fossil fuels have shrunk to 29%.

Submission Statement

The EU has set itself ambitious decarbonization targets. It aims for Europe to have [net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050](https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/climate-strategies-targets/2050-long-term-strategy_en), and has enshrined those targets in law in the territory’s 27 countries.

The bloc has used its [European Green Deal](https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en) to speed up decarbonization, and while these results are impressive, this report points out they will need to accelerate further to meet the 2050 targets.

This really is incredible, the more this transition accelerates in Europe, the greater the moral and economic power will be to force other nations to adopt more restrictive emissions policies. The shift towards a low-carbon economy is essential for long-term human survival, delaying these policies will only bring more climate chaos to our planet.

Cue far right AfD leader Alice Weidel: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftRRrUAB6Qg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftRRrUAB6Qg)

*We will tear down these wind turbines…!*

And what she did not say: *”… and will lock the German economy in dependence of imported gas and oil from our patrons and masters in Russia that have bankrolled us and used their propaganda machine for us.*

*And worst case scenario, as my illustrious predecessors Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schroeder, I am on Russian payroll, and at the end of my career will retire into a board member position at Gazprom or Rosneft.”*

Because there is nothing more nationalistic and right wing patriotic than selling your country for a few rubles.