During a discussion in the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) on Thursday 16 January, the European Commissioner for Climate, Carbon Net Zero and Clean Growth, Wopke Hoekstra, admitted it was “unlikely” that the legislative proposal on the 2040 climate target(see EUROPE B13547A10) would be presented at the end of February, at the same time as the ‘Clean Industrial Deal’, as some MEPs had hoped.
However, Mr Hoekstra acknowledged the...