Recital (5)

In order to achieve the 2040 climate target it is essential, inter alia, to fully implement the agreed 2030 policy framework; to ensure and provide support to enhance and bolster the competitiveness and resilience of the European industry; to ensure sustainable food systems as well as the resilience of rural communities and food security through a sustainable and robust European agricultural sector; to ensure transition pathways based on best available cost-effective, safe and scalable technologies; and to set a greater focus on a just transition for affected regions, sectors and vulnerable households that leaves no one behind, for example through support from the Social Climate Fund, in the transition to climate neutrality. Furthermore, it is essential to ensure fair competition with international partners and to make effective use of all Union economic instruments to deter and counter unfair trade practices, to decarbonise the energy system with a technologically neutral approach that includes all zero- and low carbon energy solutions (including renewables, nuclear, energy efficiency, storage, carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon capture and utilisation (CCU), carbon removals, geothermal and hydro-energy, sustainable bioenergy and all other current and future net-zero energy technologies), to reduce import dependencies and diversify the Union’s sources of critical raw materials, and to organise a strategic dialogue on the post-2030 framework with all relevant sectors, including industry and transport.