The Staudinger coal power plant near Frankfurt, Germany. (EU)
The European Parliament voted in favour of a more ambitious carbon dioxide target for 2030 on Thursday, putting Europe’s polluters under increasing pressure to clean up their act.
In a plenary vote in Strasbourg, a majority of MEPs voted for the EU to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels compared with the current target of 40%. Indeed, the 40% target should be surpassed anyway: if EU countries meet recently revised targets for renewables and...
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