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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12576

8 October 2020
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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
CLIMATE: Under ‘Climate Law’, European Parliament approves target of a 60% reduction in EU emissions by 2030
Brussels, 07/10/2020 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 7 October, MEPs approved an amendment to the “climate law” that would raise the EU’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target for 2030 to 60%, from the current 40% (compared to 1990 levels). 

This is an important victory for the climate and for our future”, said Jytte Guteland (S&D, Sweden), the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the ‘climate law’, describing the vote as a “historic moment”.

According to her, Parliament has thus adopted “a firm...

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