SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate

MEPs want EU to raise its 2030 targets and make a success of COP 22

Brussels, 09/09/2016 (Agence Europe)

In order to protect the climate, MEPs on the European Parliament’s environment committee have high ambitions when it comes to the efforts to be made by the EU and all countries in the rest of the world. Not content with recommending to the European Parliament that it endorses ratification of the Paris agreement and urging the EU to ratify it swiftly(see EUROPE 11619), they also call for a raising of the EU’s targets for 2030.

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