Contribution of EU local and regional authorities to a successful implementation of the EU long term strategy

In November 2018, the European Commission published a 2050 Long Term Strategy (LTS) that aims to outline long term decarbonisation objectives for the EU and explore the possibilities for reaching the Paris Agreement goals and climate neutrality by 2050. In response to the LTS, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is preparing an Opinion and this report aims to support the CoR by providing insights concerning the LTS scenarios and their impacts, the role of local and regional authorities (LRAs) in the LTS, the potential role of the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) in the implementation of the LTS and the consistency of the LTS with the implementation of the Paris Agreement.