{"id":470652,"date":"2026-11-09T16:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/11\/09\/calano-le-emissioni-di-gas-serra-nellue-nel-2025-ma-la-commissione-ammonisce-fare-di-piu\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:11:53","slug":"greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-the-eu-decreased-in-2025-but-the-commission-warns-that-more-needs-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/11\/09\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-the-eu-decreased-in-2025-but-the-commission-warns-that-more-needs-to-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU decreased in 2025, but the Commission warns that more needs to be done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions? The European Union is making progress, while Italy has not done its homework properly and has been held back. The European Commission published today (9 November) the Progress report on EU climate action<\/a> for 2026 and the Carbon Market Report<\/a>. The two reports highlight that greenhouse gas emissions in the EU continue to fall,<\/strong> but call for the decarbonisation process to be accelerated<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The data from the Climate Progress Report state that in 2025, the EU\u2019s net greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.6 per cent compared with 2024<\/strong>. Emissions covered by the ETS fell by around 2 per cent in 2025, while emissions in the sectors covered by the
\nEffort Sharing Regulation<\/a><\/p>\n

(ESR) \u2013 the European Union legislation setting binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for each Member State for the period 2021\u20132030 \u2013 remained broadly stable. Overall, emissions fell by 39 per cent compared with 1990 levels, while the EU economy grew by 74 per cent. The Carbon Market Report also notes that revenue from the ETS system rose by \u20ac43.2 billion in 2025, an increase of 11 per cent compared with 2024. <\/p>\n

In a press release, Berlyamont Palace noted that \u201cwhile the EU remains fully committed to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030, the slower pace of emissions reductions in 2025 will require an acceleration of efforts across the economy in the second half of the decade.<\/strong>\u201d According to projections, emissions covered by the ESR Regulation are currently expected to fall by around 38.5 per cent by 2030, a figure close to the 40 per cent target set by the regulation. However, there are nine EU countries<\/strong> \u2013 Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta, Sweden, and Italy \u2013 which have not made sufficient progress towards meeting the targets set out in the regulation<\/strong>. The Commission will ask each of these countries to submit a corrective action plan to accelerate the implementation and development of measures and investments aimed at reducing emissions. During today\u2019s daily press briefing, the Commission\u2019s spokesperson responsible for the Environment portfolio, Anna-Kaisa Itkonen<\/strong>, stated<\/a> that the European Commissioner for the Environment, Wopke Hoekstra<\/strong>, will \u201csend them a letter.\u201d They will then \u201chave three months to inform us of the corrective measures taken, and we will provide them with feedback within the following four months,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

According to the report “Trends and projections<\/a>“, also published today by the European Environment Agency, \u201cturning plans into real-world emissions reductions will require a full and timely implementation of planned policies and measures.\u201d The Agency clarifies that \u201cto reach the target, emissions reductions in Effort Sharing Regulation sectors over the next five years will need to match those achieved over the previous two decades combined.<\/strong>\u201d
\nProgress remains “particularly challenging in end-use sectors such as transport, buildings and agriculture, where behavioural change and household investment decisions play a key role in reducing emissions.\u202f\u201d <\/p>\n

In addition to emissions, the production of clean technologies within the EU has also \u201cexpanded significantly.\u201d However, according to the report, <\/strong>\u201cthere are still further economic opportunities to be seized for European industry.<\/strong>\u201d The starting point, however, appears positive: in 2025, registrations of battery-electric cars stood at 1.9 million, equivalent to around one in six new car registrations. The EU\u2019s wind and solar power capacity rose to 611 gigawatts, accounting for around 49 per cent of total electricity generated. The installation of heat pumps has also accelerated, with an estimated additional capacity of 41 gigawatts installed in 2025, compared with the 26 gigawatts recorded in 2024. <\/p>\n

The MEP from The Left \u2013 elected as part of the Five Star Movement \u2013 Valentina Palmisano<\/strong>, commented on Italy\u2019s result, stating that \u201cthe Meloni government<\/strong>\u201d has been <\/strong>\u201crejected by the EU in the fight against climate change.<\/strong>\u201d According to the MEP, \u201cthe request to present corrective measures to meet the emissions reduction targets by 2030 confirms the failure of an environmental policy characterised by announcements, U-turns and decisions that look to the past rather than the future.\u201d While \u201cthe climate crisis is accelerating and taking its toll every day,\u201d the government \u201ccontinues to chase emergencies without tackling their causes,\u201d she added. In emphasising that \u201cItaly is one of the European countries most exposed to the risks of climate change \u2013 hydrogeological instability, the fragility of the landscape, coastal erosion, wildfires, and heatwaves are scenarios that affect our regions every year\u201d \u2013 Palmisano stressed that \u201cany delay in the ecological transition means higher costs, greater damage, increased insecurity, and new inequalities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Berlaymont Building has published the 2026 Progress Report on EU Climate Action and the Carbon Market Report. Italy and eight other EU Member States have not made sufficient progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":470601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[35503],"tags":[25871,26267,26897,26050,26944,27194,26076,29899,25755,26869,27853,31100,34871,35217,26559,28379,29243],"class_list":["post-470652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ambiente","tag-austria-en","tag-climate-en","tag-croatia-en","tag-cipro-en","tag-environment-en","tag-ets-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-irlanda-en","tag-lithuania-en","tag-malta-in-2","tag-movimento-cinque-stelle","tag-palazzo-berlaymont","tag-swedenat","tag-la-sinistra-en","tag-valentina-palmisano-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470653,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470652\/revisions\/470653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}