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Europe's Climate Resolve Faces Big Test as EU Unveils 2040 Goal
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Between climate emergency and economic realism, the European Commission is trying to correct the Green Deal's mistakes with its new 2040 target.
In the long term, the EU strives for climate neutrality. On the way there, it wants to anchor a milestone goal legally. Therefore, in some Member States, nervousness prevails.
By 2050, Europe should be climate neutral. Today, the EU Commission is presenting a new intermediate goal on the way there. However, the law is fiercely controversial among Member States and in the EU Parliament. By Jakob Mayr.
On the streets and hills of Europe, all the alarms of extreme heat are sounding. But in the air-conditioned Berlaymont, the EU's top policymakers are wondering whether now is the right time to impose new climate targets. On Wednesday, at...
An officer of the National Forestry Office inspects a young shoot on a plot under reforestation in Méry-sur-Oise (Val-d的Oise), on 29 April 2025. IAN LANGSDON/AFP While the Old Continent suffocates under heat, the European Commission presented on Wednesday 2 July its objective of reducing CO2 emissions by 2040: by that time they will have to have fallen by 90% (compared to 1990). In recent months, its president, Ursula von der Leyen, had committe…
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