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We welcome the decision by the Biden Harris administration to step up the fight against climate change and the United States' return to the Paris Agreement.

We now share the same goal on both sides of the Atlantic: CO2 neutrality by 2050.

Cooperation between the United States and Europe is essential to combat climate change and enable a transition that is both just and sustainable.

Together we are responsible for around 25 percent of global CO2 emissions and 40 percent of global GDP.

We are a market with 800 million people.

The United States is one of Europe's largest trading partners.

By acting together, we can make all the difference.

The much-needed global change will never be achieved if we don't do it right.

Six months after the European elections in May 2019, Europe has brought the largest transition plan on a continental scale on the table: the European Green Deal.

Contrary to the assumption that the Covid crisis would jeopardize these goals, the EU has even decided to accelerate the green transition.

We are in the process of launching a stimulus package that will both save and reshape our economy to get it on track with the Paris Agreement.

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For the fight against climate change, 250 billion euros will be made available in just three years.

The biggest green investment boost ever made in Europe!

We have also agreed that no funds should be invested in environmentally harmful activities.

We are proud of this remarkable achievement and expect the USA to embark on a similar path with its “Build back better” plan.

An unprecedented change

The EU is now a leader when it comes to climate change.

We have already committed to new climate targets by 2030 and agreed to develop a new system for environmentally friendly investments.

A prime example of these efforts is the European climate law, which anchors our climate goals in law.

With this legislation we are laying down a concrete path for the next few decades.

Within the next 18 months we will undertake a system change that will fundamentally change the way we produce, consume, move around, eat and also do business with the rest of the world.

The aim of this unprecedented change: to align all our political measures with climate protection.

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In this process, we will ask our industries to become greener and to invest more in low-carbon technologies through a higher carbon price.

As we tackle these reforms, we must ensure a level playing field with competitors who are not, like us, committed to climate protection.

The importance of the CO2 border adjustment mechanism will be on the table in June.

The US and EU face different challenges in the transition to carbon neutrality.

While the EU depends on imports to meet half of its energy needs, the US, on the other hand, has started to export more energy products than it imports.

Beyond these differences, we have a common agenda and we need to tackle common reforms.

We call on the US to achieve its goals

We also share the same concern: the transition must be just and fair so that our citizens, workers and industries are not disadvantaged.

We must therefore intensify our cooperation and work together to renew our energy systems, take additional steps to make our financial systems more environmentally friendly, use zero-emission vehicles and promote the renovation of buildings.

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This decade will make all the difference in the fight against climate change!

The climate crisis has no political direction, no borders, and no vaccine will protect us from its effects.

We - European policy makers, CEOs, business associations, trade unions and think tanks - call on the United States to meet its targets by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030 (compared to 2005 levels ) saying goodbye.

We can build on our long shared history and this new shared vision to initiate global development and support the transformation of our societies towards a new kind of prosperity.

With carbon-neutral economies and the protection of biological diversity, we have the opportunity to create jobs and improve the quality of life of our citizens.

We have the chance to build a new transatlantic cooperation centered on carbon neutrality.

We therefore appeal to the United States to be just as courageous and ambitious as we were with the European Green Deal.

We are determined to intensify our cooperation in order to walk this path together.

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity not to be missed!

The initiative for this call goes back to Pascal Canfin, chairman of the committee on the environment, public health and food safety in the European Parliament. The more than one hundred signatories include European politicians, representatives of large European companies such as Ikea, Amundi and Eon, as well as NGOs such as the Club of Rome and the Solar Impulse Foundation.