1. Welcomes the fact that over recent years cohesion policy has proven its ability to mitigate the negative impact of the economic and financial crisis on public investment levels in the Member States, inter alia by reducing national co-financing requirements and redirecting a significant part of cohesion funds towards measures with a direct and immediate effect on growth and job creation; underlines the positive contribution that other policies and instruments beyond the field of cohesion make towards achieving the objectives of the ...[+++] Europe 2020 strategy; is confident that, owing to the usual time lag between action and impact and the fact that funds from the 2007-2013 period may still be used until the end of 2016, these beneficial effects will continue to grow over the next few years;

B. whereas the Doha Climate Gateway notes with grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of the Parties’ current mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the annual mean surface temperature increase to 2 ºC (the 2 ºC objective);

B. whereas the Doha Climate Gateway notes with grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of the Parties’ current mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the annual mean surface temperature increase to 2ºC (the 2ºC objective);

25. Notes that the European Council reaffirms the EU commitment agreed in December 2008 to deliver by 2020 a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a minimum 20% increase in the share of renewables in final energy consumption, and a 20% reduction in energy consumption thanks to energy efficiency; recalls that any domestic greenhouse gas reduction target less ambitious than -30% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels is completely out of line with science and will not prevent the dramatic consequences of runaway climate change; considers that it would furthermore demonstrate the breakdown of EU leadership in global climate policy; insists ...[+++] that further reduction targets are necessary for the longer term and that European policies should work towards those longer term targets and start implementing them now; urges the Commission to propose policies to ensure a profound change in production, distribution and consumption towards these objectives;

7. Recalls that any domestic greenhouse gas reduction target less ambitious than -30% compared to 1990 levels is completely out of line with science and will not prevent the dramatic consequences of runaway climate change; considers that it would furthermore demonstrate the breakdown of EU leadership in global climate policy; insists therefore that this target should be set at a reduction of 40%; rejects subsidies to doubtful and risky technologies which can only deliver greenhouse gas emissions reductions which are too little too late, such as nuclear and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS);

This analysis of outstanding commitments for 2000-06 is based on the situation in mid-2002, taking account of the effect of the delays in the adoption of some programmes in relation to the Agenda 2000 forecasts and the late start to the financial execution of programmes.