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...