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By changing how EU sets its climate targets, ‘climate law’ has real added value, says Pascal Canfin

Brussels, 03/03/2020 (Agence Europe)

Given that with the ‘climate law’, the adoption of the EU’s climate targets will no longer require unanimity among Member States, but simply a qualified majority, this regulation, although imperfect, has real added value, said the Chair of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee (ENVI), Pascal Canfin (Renew Europe, France), in an exchange with journalists on Tuesday 3 March.

Leaked to the press (see EUROPE B12437A3), the ‘climate law’, which will be officially presented...