EU presses on with tighter 2030 climate target despite coronavirus pandemic

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The new target, to be proposed in September, will guide the Commission’s revisions of a suite of EU policies even as it also focuses on a post-coronavirus economic recovery

The Commission wants to revise EU regulations on the carbon market, renewable energy and energy efficiency by June 2021 as part of its “Green Deal” vision to decarbonize the bloc’s economy by 2050.

The Commission has said its Green Deal and digitalization are two central elements of any “intelligent recovery.” A group of 37 members of the 705-seat European Parliament asked the three main EU institutions on Monday to postpone new Green Deal legislation and instead focus on agreeing the bloc’s next multiyear budget to help EU members recover.

 

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