BRUSSELS – The Council of the European Union (EU) announced on Wednesday that member states had reached an agreement on amending the European climate law and approved updated 2035 emission-reduction targets for the EU and member states.<\/p>\n
According to the document, the Council maintained the European Commission’s proposal for an intermediate climate target for 2040 of a 90 percent reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 levels.<\/p>\n
The document sets out the Council’s position for subsequent negotiations with the European Parliament that will shape the final text of the legislation.<\/p>\n
It clarifies some areas of flexibility included in the Commission’s proposal and introduces a biennial assessment to track progress towards intermediate targets.<\/p>\n
On the same day, the Council also approved an updated nationally determined contribution of the EU and member states, which will be submitted ahead of COP30 in Brazil.<\/p>\n
Adopted in 2021, the European climate law sets a climate neutrality target by 2050 and a 2030 objective of reducing net emissions by at least 55 percent compared to 1990 levels. The European Commission put forward a proposal in July to amend the law to set a 2040 target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS – The Council of the European Union (EU) announced on Wednesday that member states had reached an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[45396,2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-551891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-climate-goals","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}