{"id":23960,"date":"2020-09-12T09:57:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T06:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=23960"},"modified":"2020-09-12T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T07:46:17","slug":"eu-parliaments-environment-committee-votes-to-support-60-eu-emissions-cut-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vauen\/eu-parliaments-environment-committee-votes-to-support-60-eu-emissions-cut-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament&#8217;s environment committee votes to support 60% EU emissions cut by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Lawmakers in European Parliament\u2019s environment committee on Thursday voted in favour of a legally binding target for the European Union to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030, against 1990 levels. The EU wants to upgrade its 2030 emissions-cutting target, to steer its economy towards becoming \u201cclimate neutral\u201d by 2050, and lead global efforts to curb emissions at a rate that would avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Thursday\u2019s vote agreed the committee\u2019s position on the EU climate law, a landmark bill to make the bloc\u2019s climate goals legally-binding. The committee will formally approve its position on the law with another vote on Friday. The full parliament will vote on the law in early October.<\/p>\n<p>The climate law must also be approved by national governments, who disagree on how ambitious the EU\u2019s new 2030 emissions-cutting target should be. A 55% emissions reduction goal has support from some 12 countries, but some eastern states have refused to commit to any new target before seeing an assessment of the economic costs.<\/p>\n<p>The committee on Thursday backed a more ambitious 2030 climate goal than the one being considered by the European Commission, which is expected to propose a 55% EU emissions cut for 2030 next week. It is not clear which target has majority support in the full parliament &#8211; but the hope is that if parliament aims high, it could pressure governments to accept a more ambitious goal, said French lawmaker Pascal Canfin, who chairs the environment committee. \u201cWe all know that 55% is already very ambitious, but that science is even asking for more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/reut.rs\/2F9W26J\">Reuters\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in European Parliament\u2019s environment committee on Thursday voted in favour of a legally binding target for the European Union to cut its greenhouse gas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594,34,35],"tags":[2223,490,75,665,339],"class_list":["post-23960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","category-vauen","category-vaufien","tag-climate-law","tag-environment","tag-eu","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-politics","wpcat-5594-id","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-35-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24022,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions\/24022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}