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European Council is misleading its citizens with a ‘net’ 2030 target
The European Council has agreed to reduce the EU’s contribution to climate change by ‘at least 55%’ by 2030, by including carbon sinks, such as forests and soils.
European Council is misleading its citizens with a ‘net’ 2030 target Published on
Brussels, 11th December 2020.
The European Council has agreed to reduce the EU’s contribution to climate change by ‘at least 55%’ by 2030, by including carbon sinks, such as forests and soils. This changes the calculation for overall reductions and indeed, confuses the matter, by including uncertain levels of removals – this will require new methodologies to be developed later in the decade. In other words, it is impossible to tell, at this stage, by how much the EU will reduce its emissions by 2030 or by how much the reductions target was increased from the current –40%. The Commission’s own assessment suggested this cou