Progress towards national greenhouse gas emission targets in Europe

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transport, buildings, agriculture, small industry and waste sectors, and regulated by the EU Effort Sharing legislation, have fallen by 19.8% between 2005 and 2023. Preliminary estimates for 2024 show virtually no improvement compared with 2023 levels, leading to emissions slightly above the trajectory for the year. The more ambitious national targets for Effort Sharing emissions adopted with the amendment of the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) in 2023 require EU countries to step up efforts. Member States’ GHG emissions are projected to fall by 38.1% below 2005 base year levels by 2030, based on current and planned policies and measures. This would reduce the gap to the 2030 ESR target to only 2 % points.