Much has changed since the 2050 Roadmap was published in 2011. Although the timing is still unclear, the European Commission will publish a new Long-Term Climate Strategy (LTCS). The European Council, in its conclusions of 22 March 2018, asked the European Commission to publish the new LTCS in 2019.
Developing the EU Long Term Climate Strategy provides a ‘roadmap’ for the development and delivery of the LTCS. It has two outputs. This Technical Paper, Developing the EU Long Term Climate Strategy: Special report, describes the main issues that need to be addressed, the potential choices that can be made in the design of the new strategy and an analysis of the implied trade-offs. An accompanying policy paper presents different bundles of consistent choices from the Technical Paper, resulting in different architectures, and may serve as a basis upon which to build the new LTCS.