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===The objectives expected of the energy policy===
Since the 1970’s, the EU is involved in the climate change fight by trying to implement a common energy policy which sets some common objectives to reduce the impacts of air pollution. Into these common policies, a long term vision has been adopted to implement long-term strategies with common objectives. The strategies have as an aim to guide the practical measures and investments of the EU.
Three long term strategies <ref name="strategies">[https://europa.eu/european-union/topics/energy_en], Energy, European Union (europa.eu),https://europa.eu/european-union/topics/energy_en</ref> -Targets for 2020, Targets for 2030, and Targets for 2050- have been implemented to fight climate change. These strategies play an important part in the fight against air pollution.
For each target, the EU have set up objectives to improve air quality:
* '''Targets for 2020'''
''- “Reducing greenhouse gases by at least 20% compared to 1990 levels
- 20% of energy from renewable sources
* save 19 000km2 of forest ecosystems from acidification”''
Keeping in mind that air pollution has no borders and is moving all around the planet, and being aware of the fact that this is not an issue that will resolve itself, the EU has decided to implement its policy in cooperation with the rest of the world. That is why the EU has decided to follow in its objectives the request of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in terms of air pollutants emissions, but also to be present in the global negotiations about climate change. That is the case each year during the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations. The EU was also very active in the negotiations of the 2015 Paris Accord during the COP 21.
===The measures taken by the EU===
