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Despite emerging compromises, MEPs remain divided over 2030 ‘climate law’ target

Brussels, 04/09/2020 (Agence Europe)

As members of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) vote on Thursday 10 September on compromise amendments to the report by Jytte Guteland (S&D, Sweden) on the future ‘climate law’, negotiations between the political groups are in full swing. 

Target 2030.

Among the hotly debated points: the extent to which the European Union's target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 should be raised (see EUROPE B12495A21).

While...