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Ursula von der Leyen: CO2 reduction by 55 percent?
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The EU Commission is apparently planning to significantly tighten the climate target for 2030: Instead of 40 percent, greenhouse gases should fall 55 percent below the 1990 level within ten years.
According to the current state of affairs, this is what the dpa news agency and the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reported, citing EU circles.
EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen wants to officially comment on this in her speech on the State of the European Union on Wednesday in a week.
In 2019 she had already discussed raising the target to 50 to 55 percent, but initially commissioned a precise impact assessment.
She is expected to comment on specific savings targets in her speech.
Commission circles: a number of many
The proposed tightening should help to comply with the Paris climate protection agreement and to curb man-made global warming, which threatens numerous species and countries.
The new target for 2030 is to be incorporated into the European climate protection law, with which the EU undertakes to become climate neutral by 2050.
According to SPIEGEL information, the EU Commission said that the reduction in CO2 emissions by 55 percent that was brought into play was one of many that is currently circulating in Brussels.
No information will be given before the speech next week.
In the European Parliament, some members of the Greens and Liberals are considering an even more drastic tightening, while some EU states and German industry already consider a 55 percent target to be unrealistic.
As soon as von der Leyen's proposal is available, the EU institutions will negotiate on it.
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