“Habemus pactum! Belgium will support the European ambition of -55% of greenhouse gas emissions at the European Council on 10 and 11 December next”, said Belgium's Federal Minister for Climate, Zakia Khattabi, on Twitter on Monday 7 December. Due to a stalemate by the Flemish government, the country was one of the Member States that had not yet expressed a clear position on the European Commission's proposal to raise the EU's emission reduction target for 2030 to ‘at least 55%’...