The European Union’s environment ministers have discussed a CO2 reduction target for 2040 for the first time. At the Environment Council on Monday, Ottmar Edenhofer, head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), presented the recommendations of the EU’s Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change. The researchers consider a target of 90 to 95 percent compared to 1990 levels to be feasible and provide scenarios on how this can be achieved.