Leaders of the European Union’s member states are expected to agree on long-term carbon-emissions targets when they meet for their regular autumn European Council in Brussels next week (23-24 October).
The leaders are expected to sign off on a binding target of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 40% from a 1990 baseline.
The member states will at a later point have to work out how the target is to be distributed across the 28 member states, with more ambitious targets applying to some and less ambitious goals to others. Several national governments have made it clear that they can agree to EU-wide targets …read more
Source: European Voice
