On Monday 7 September, the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee voted in favour of a 55% reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a potential intermediary target for 2040 and adequate EU funding to achieve these targets (see EUROPE 12554/25).
The European Parliament Agriculture Committee adopted (35 votes in favour, eight against and five abstentions) its opinion to the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on the proposal for a regulation establishing the framework required to achieve climate neutrality (European Climate Law).
MEPs stress that by 2050 the EU and each EU Member State should achieve climate neutrality. To this end, the European Commission should, by June 2021, review the Union's 2030 target for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 levels and present a legislative proposal to increase it to 55%.
The Commission had initially proposed to set the new 2030 emission reduction target in the range of 50-55%. Raising the 2030 target to 55% is in line with the ambition expressed by the European Parliament in its January 2020 resolution on the European Green Deal. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)