Climate: EU will reduce emissions by at least 55% by 2030

The European Parliament and EU Member States have agreed on the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by "at least" 55% by 2030: the European Commission states in a statement. "The European climate law establishes the EU's commitment to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and the intermediate goal of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels". The emission reduction targets remain those proposed by the European Commission in 2020 and endorsed by EU leaders last December. But on the 2030 target, as requested by the European Parliament, the negotiators introduced a cap (225 million tons) on the contribution of CO2 removals from forests and technologies. A detail that,according to the president of the environment commission of the European Parliament Pascal Canfin, this translates into "an effective reduction of 57%". The rest will have to be all reduction effort. Climate neutrality by 2050, as established by EU leaders, remains instead a collective objective of the Union and not for each single State, as the European Parliament wanted. Other elements of the agreement include the establishment of an independent European scientific advisory committee on climate change and an intermediate climate goal to be achieved by 2040. The agreement will now have to be definitively approved by the Council (member countries) and the plenary of the European Parliament. .The rest will have to be all reduction effort. Climate neutrality by 2050, as established by EU leaders, remains instead a collective objective of the Union and not for each single State, as the European Parliament wanted. Other elements of the agreement include the establishment of an independent European scientific advisory committee on climate change and an intermediate climate goal to be achieved by 2040. The agreement will now have to be definitively approved by the Council (member countries) and the plenary of the European Parliament. .The rest will have to be all reduction effort. Climate neutrality by 2050, as established by EU leaders, remains instead a collective objective of the Union and not for each single State, as the European Parliament wanted. Other elements of the agreement include the establishment of an independent European scientific advisory committee on climate change and an intermediate climate goal to be achieved by 2040. The agreement will now have to be definitively approved by the Council (member countries) and the plenary of the European Parliament. .establishment of an independent European scientific advisory committee on climate change and an intermediate climate goal to be achieved by 2040. The agreement will now have to be definitively approved by the Council (member countries) and by the plenary of the European Parliament.establishment of an independent European scientific advisory committee on climate change and an intermediate climate goal to be achieved by 2040. The agreement will now have to be definitively approved by the Council (member countries) and by the plenary of the European Parliament.