Together for 1.5
Belgian NECP
Belgium needs to step up with an ambitious and well-integrated NECP. We need to go beyond the lasagna of regional and federal plans, towards an integrated strategy that confronts the climate crisis while also tackling energy poverty and fossil fuel dependency.
Click HERE to download the Belgian draft NECP country assessment
Belgium – climate action progress in figures
Check Belgium’s implementation of its National Energy and Climate Plan
As of 2022, Belgium was not fully on track to implement its old 2019 NECP, which is now obsolete in terms of ambition. In fact, Belgium is not on track in the LULUCF sector: the 2022 historical value (-0.41 MtCO2-eq) is higher than both the NECP value for 2020 (-0.7) and the 2025 target (-0.9). Implementation is also lagging behind in non-ETS sectors covered by the Effort-Sharing Regulation, notably in the transport and waste sectors – the former having experienced a substantial uptake in emissions after the 2020 pandemic.
Implementation is on track for gross and net emissions, as well as in the ETS sectors. However, the 2019 NECP trajectories for these indicators were extremely unambitious, as they all projected an increase in emissions between 2020 and 2025.
Check here our latest briefing from October 2024
“Mind the NECP Gap”
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Belgian NECP Assessment
Belgium overall does not strive towards a 1.5°C trajectory. With the current regional plans, Belgium would not fulfil the EU requirements for climate effort sharing. There is not enough information available with regards to energy efficiency and renewables. Planned policies and measures (PAMs) are likely not enough to achieve the non-Emission Trading System (non-ETS) target...
NECPs Explainer
If we were to tell you in one minute everything about EU National and Energy Climate Plans (NECPs), this is how we’d do it. Watch the video and see by yourself the links between National Energy and Climate Plans and our day-to-day European lives.