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...