On Friday 19 December, the permanent representatives of the Member States to the EU endorsed the interinstitutional agreement on the Climate Law’s revision, setting an interim target of an 85% reduction in domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 (compared with 1990)(see EUROPE B13770A1).
As with the agreement reached by European environment ministers on 5 November (see EUROPE B13751A3), Belgium and Bulgaria abstained. Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic rejected the final...