Correspondent in Brussels
The calendar is not the happiest.
But the Commission had little choice.
It was therefore on Tuesday, from Strasbourg, where farmers were demonstrating, that the European executive unveiled the EU's climate ambitions for 2040. Wait until May to make this announcement, like the 2021 European law on the climate allowed him to do so, it was taking the risk of adding fuel to the fire of peasant anger just before the European elections in June and giving further fodder to climate skeptics.
Brussels is proposing a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2040, compared to the 1990 level. This new milestone aims to secure the path that the EU must take to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, after the 2030 target of a 55% reduction in emissions.
This general objective of 90% will not be accompanied by a binding legislative text before the end of 2024, presented by the next…
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