Despite some progress, negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union left without any major breakthrough on the ‘Climate Law’, on Friday 12 March, at the end of a fourth session of interinstitutional negotiations (‘trilogues’) that lasted until early evening.
This fourth round focused on the possibility of establishing an EU “greenhouse gas budget” (GHG) and the creation of a “European Climate Change Council” (ECCC), both of which were...