The ultimate aim of the European Green Deal is a fully decarbonised European Union by 2050. This is one of the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement. It is based on a binding legal framework, the basic act of which is the ‘Climate Law’ proposed by the ‘von der Leyen I’ Commission and adopted in June 2021. It concerns all sectors of the economic and social life of the EU. At least to begin with, this flagship project rallied a reasonably broad political consensus and mobilised...