Published: May 2nd, 2023,
Last updated: May 2nd, 2023
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s current mandate is informally entitled „ensuring that Europe meets its climate target of minus 55 percent CO2 by 2030″. Parliament and member states are still wrangling over the details of individual dossiers, while other projects in the Fit for 55 package have already been ticked off. But the authority is already eyeing what the next climate target might be in 2040, ten years later. My colleague Lukas Scheid reports on considerations to include negative emissions in the ETS.