The European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra, called on the European Parliament’s Environment Committee to move away from “ideological considerations” when considering all possible solutions for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, during an exchange with MEPs on the communication on the 2040 climate target published the previous week (see EUROPE B13344A1).
While the majority of MEPs did not question an intermediate target of a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions...