On Tuesday 5 March, European Environment Ministers welcomed the vision of the long-term strategy the EU will have to adopt by 2020 in order to make a successful transition to a climate-neutral European economy by 2050 (see EUROPE 12148).
Differences emerged between the most ambitious countries, such as Sweden, Luxembourg, France and Portugal, which favoured only the two most ambitious scenarios for achieving zero net emissions in 2050, and the Central and Eastern European countries,...