On Thursday, 5 March, environment ministers from the twenty-seven Member States of the European Union generally welcomed the European Commission’s proposal for a regulation aimed at anchoring the target of climate neutrality by 2050, known as the ‘climate law’ (see EUROPE B12439A2). However, they were divided over the provision to increase the EU’s climate goal for 2030.
On one hand, a group of countries reiterated its wish, expressed in a letter a few days prior...