As the European Commission prepares to publish its final communication on a 2040 climate target of a 90% reduction in emissions, on Monday 29 January it presented the EU’s progress towards the 2030 and 2050 climate targets to the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment (ENVI).
Addressing MEPs, Luca De Carli, Deputy Director of the Commission’s DG Climate, stressed that although progress had been made, the EU needed to step up its efforts to combat climate change. He...