After the deputies, the environment ministers act on the Commission’s package aimed at reducing CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030.
Europe has taken an important step in the fight against global warming. After the approval this month of the deputies, the Ministers of the Environment of the Twenty-Seven reached, early Wednesday morning after long weeks of negotiations, an agreement on a series of legislative texts proposed by the European Commission in July 2021.
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The objective of this package called “Fit for 55” is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 with an intermediate deadline: the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 55% in 2030 compared to their 1990 level. 1990 and 2019, CO emissions have fallen by around 25%, so there is still a long way to go. “Obtaining it under the impetus of the French presidency is a crucial step“, welcomed the French Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, welcoming “a political victory and the most ambitious set of laws in the world“. It now remains to make the positions converge with…