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Climate: the big bang of the European Commission

2021-07-14T20:57:10.723Z


End of thermal cars in 2035, taxation of imports, greener agriculture… The EU has presented no less than twelve texts to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030.


Correspondent in Brussels

For Europeans, the hardest part begins with the climate.

After agreeing on major greenhouse gas emissions targets - a reduction of at least 55% by 2030 compared to minus 40% previously, then carbon neutrality at the horizon 2050 - and having wanted to show it to the rest of the world - the United States in the lead - it was necessary to come to concrete and painful measures.

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This is the purpose of the “climate package” also called “Fit for 55” (sic) presented on Wednesday by the Commission.

And when we speak of a package, we don't think so well.

No less than 12 texts were put on the table.

Some are new, others are existing laws, but largely revised.

They relate to the taxation of energy, the preservation of forests, renewable energies, the new carbon tax at the borders of the EU, etc.

All point in the same direction, that of stricter measures, synonymous with additional constraints.

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Source: lefigaro

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