On Thursday 4 March, the Greens/EFA group published a report assessing the economic impact of raising the EU’s target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 60% by 2030, compared to a target of 55%.
The report, which was carried out by Cambridge Econometrics, an organisation that specialises in data analysis, concludes that an emissions reduction target of 60% is economically feasible.
According to the authors, the measures that are considered necessary for a reduction of this size...