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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12557

11 September 2020
SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate
Under ‘climate law’, MEPs vote in favour of a 60% reduction in EU emissions by 2030
Brussels, 10/09/2020 (Agence Europe)

Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) finally voted on Thursday 10 September in favour of a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (compared to 1990 levels) as the European Union’s new climate target for 2030, at the end of a long-awaited voting session on compromise amendments to the ‘climate law’.

As expected (see EUROPE B12556A13), the vote was extremely close (40 votes in favour, 37 against and...

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