The European Parliament’s environment committee showed ambition, in Strasbourg on Monday 23 October, on the EU’s 2030 renewable energy targets when it adopted its opinion on the renewable energy directive and on the substance of the section of the sustainability of agro-fuels that lies within its area of competence.
Voting (by a wafer-thin majority of 32 to 29, with 4 abstentions) to endorse the position of rapporteur Bas Eickhout (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), the committee called on the EU...