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Overall rating: Insufficient

Policies and action against modelled domestic pathways: Insufficient; < 3°C World

NDC target against modelled domestic pathways: Insufficient; < 3°C World

NDC target against fair share: Insufficient; < 3°C World

Climate finance: Insufficient

Net zero target: year
2050; Comprehensiveness rated as
Acceptable

Land use & forestry: Not significant

2035 NDC Target

The EU has not yet submitted their 2035 NDC to the UNFCCC. Once the new NDC has been submitted, we will publish our assessment here.

Read our response to the EU Environment Council’s failure to adopt a 2035 NDC target from September 2025 and our blog "EU missing in action?" for more details.

Further analysis

Latest publications

Published 2025/09/25

RELEASE: China's new target unlikely to drive down emissions

Published 2025/09/22

RELEASE: CAT downgrades US to "Critically insufficient"

Published 2025/09/19

Response to EU Environment Council’s failure to adopt a 2035 NDC target

Published 2025/06/26

Why Article 6 should increase climate action – not delay it

Published 2025/06/19

Mid-year check on 2035 climate plans

Published 2025/06/19

RELEASE: Mid-year check on climate plans: not much to analyse

Published 2025/05/21

Virtual Event – Plugging into progress: Evaluating power sector decarbonis…

Published 2025/05/12

EU Missing in Action?

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