“Now the time has come for global action”. At the Major Economies Forum on Climate and Energy (MEF), a virtual meeting hosted by the White House on Thursday 20 April to coordinate the efforts of the world’s most industrialised countries to combat climate change, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced her intention to launch a new initiative towards “global targets for energy efficiency, and renewable energy”. This would be based on international...