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Wopke Hoekstra

COMMISSIONER (2023-2024)

  • Wopke Hoekstra
    Climate Action

    Email: cab-hoekstra-contactatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (cab-hoekstra-contact[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)

    Address: Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200, 1049 Brussels, Belgium

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Responsibilities

  • Ensuring strong commitment on long-term climate-neutrality and Fit for 55 objectives continues, using all of the tools at our disposal.
  • Working on climate awareness and change in behaviour and production processes.
  • Ensuring that the European Climate Law is consistently implemented.
  • Leading international climate negotiations.
  • Improving preparedness for climate-related risks in the EU.
  • Guiding preparations for developing a 2040 climate target.
  • Ensuring the implementation of the legislative instruments on climate, and facilitate the adoption of the remaining co-legislative climate files.
  • Overseeing the work of the Innovation Fund, aiming to bring to the market industrial solutions to decarbonise Europe and support the transition to climate neutrality.
  • Intensify efforts on carbon capture, usage and storage.
  • Bringing together Europeans taking action for climate via the European Climate Pact.

Taking over temporarily the responsibilities for Transport

Mission letter

  • 1 SEPTEMBER 2023
President von der Leyen's mission letter to Wopke Hoekstra

Team

Wopke Hoekstra's team supports him in his daily work

My team

Media Gallery

Calendar

Latest

  • 24 November 2024
European Commission Speech Baku, 24 Nov 2024 Ladies and gentlemen, We were all here the last few days, so we all know how difficult it was. And yet, we do feel that the results of today are extremely impor...

Transparency

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In line with the Commission's Code of Conduct for Members of the Commission, each Commissioner publishes a Declaration of Interests.

signed, authentic version will be published at the bottom of this page.

machine-readable version of all Declarations is also published. This is in line with the requirements of the Code of Conduct.

The Declarations of Interests follow the requirements set out in Article 3 and in Annex 1 of the new Code of Conduct for Commissioners.

Biography

  1. 2023 - present
    European Commissioner for Climate Action
  2. 2022 - 2023
    Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister
  3. 2017 – 2022
    Minister of Finance
  4. 2011-2017
    Member of the Senate
  5. 2006-2017
    McKinsey & Company; partner since 2013
  6. 2002-2004
    Commercial positions at Shell
  • 1 SEPTEMBER 2023
Wopke Hoekstra's biography

 

Declaration of interests

  • 17 SEPTEMBER 2024
Declaration of interests - Wopke Hoekstra