Abstract
On 28 February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report "Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability". This new report gives the clearest indication to date of how a warmer world is leading to irreversible impacts and is pushing natural and human systems beyond their ability to adapt. The report’s findings clearly reinforce the urgency of climate change action and calls for efforts far beyond current commitments. To this end, the European Commission, following the adoption of the European Green Deal (2019) as the EU’s new growth strategy involving all economic sectors, and of the European Climate Law (2021) as the EU’s binding instrument to pursue a climate-neutral economy by 2050, published the "Fit for 55" package in July 2021.